Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 03:04:40 08/19/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 21:35:39, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On August 18, 2005 at 10:28:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 18, 2005 at 09:29:45, Steve Maughan wrote: >> >>>In this position Fruit plays Bxh6! - how long for other engines to find this >>>combo? >>> >>>[d]4rr1q/1bp2p1k/1ppp3p/4n3/4P3/2Q3RP/PPPBB1P1/R6K w - - 0 21 >> >> >>Fruit was probably lucky to spot this. The move may have been even better the >>previous move, but Fruit could not find it although crafty had seen it (Crafty >>was searching quite a bit deeper than fruit here) and was expecting it. The >>unfortunate thing was that after fruit played Nxb6, there were two ways to >>recapture, axb6 and cxb6. Fruit was expecting axb6 and was pondering. Crafty >>was going to play cxb6 but failed low (after it saw that Bxh6 was still strong). >> As a result of the fail low, it searched a _long_ time, and at the last second >>changed to axb6, which is probably what gave Fruit enough time to see the move. >> >>Fruit played well. But it was pretty lucky to stumble into a pretty much won >>game so easily, getting outsearched as it was... >> >>But it happens... > >Given that Crafty was running on an 8 CPU machine against against a 1 cpu >machine, calling it "lucky" is like a heavy weight boxer calling a bantam weight >boxer "lucky" to have knocked him out. It does not look good at all and well >worth avoiding. It was just "the truth"... nothing more or less. I've also pointed out our "good luck" a couple of games... > >My congratulations to Fabien for a splendid program playing a splendid game.
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