Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 07:36:07 08/19/05
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On August 19, 2005 at 06:04:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I was brought up to not speak of luck after a loss. It doesn't matter if it is the truth. It looks bad so you just don't do it. That is something left to others to point out if they have a mind to. > > > > >> >>My congratulations to Fabien for a splendid program playing a splendid game.
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