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Subject: Re: Prep against a crafty Crafty move

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 00:50:09 11/10/97

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On November 09, 1997 at 21:50:43, Howard Exner wrote:

>About a year ago someone posted a nice win of Crafty
>against Genius 3 or 4 with the following opening moves:
>
>1. e4   e5  2. Nf3   Nc6  3. Bb5   a6  4. Bc4
>
>None of my programs, MCPro 3.5, CM 4000 or Rebel 8
>have an opening book response to this. Just curious
>how many programs have a book move response to this?
>
>My wild guess is very few programs released prior to
>one year ago have a book response and that newly released programs
>do. If I were a programmer I would include some book lines
>for this unusual, yet quite sound move.
>
>How many programmers would admit honestly that they included
>book lines as a result of seeing Crafty play this move?

I remember reading the original post, but I didn't make any book
changes.

Chris Whittington




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