Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:07:56 01/22/99
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On January 22, 1999 at 01:03:56, James Robertson wrote: >On January 21, 1999 at 23:33:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 21, 1999 at 18:43:44, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On January 21, 1999 at 16:57:31, Helcio Alexandre Pacheco wrote: >>>[snip] >>>>When the scored was 5-0 a light came to my mind and I played David Levy Opening >>>>and bang!!! I was playing a crafty clone... The game went through 150 moves, >>>>and, of course, I won on time (although crafty can play a game in less then a >>>>sec...:), after moving the same piece a hundred times (don't try this at home >>>>;). >>>What is the David Levy opening? Do you have some PGN of this opening in use I >>>could examine? Is it also valuable for a win, or only for a draw? >>>>[snip] >> >>playing on decent hardware this won't work. It is sometimes called the >>'hippo' opening, with (generally, human playing white) pawns on d3/e3, and >>also a3/b3 and g3/h3. Very cramped. Against a computer that won't lose on >>time, it is probably hopeless. (I can't imagine any crafty running out of >>time in only 150 moves unless something was wrong.) But you are welcome to >>try this against 'crafty' on ICC as a guest, most any time control you want. > >Actually, it seemed to work very well against Deep Blue in the first game of the >Kasparov-Deep Blue rematch. > >James I don't remember the pawns being set up like that... continuing with knights on e2/d2, bishops on b2/g2... it is _very_ cramped and un-kasparov-like... I'll try to find the game again...
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