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Subject: Re: Crafty played Round 2 without an opening book?!?!!!?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 14:06:17 08/21/00

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On August 21, 2000 at 16:49:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 21, 2000 at 16:22:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2000 at 16:15:49, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>Is this true? And if so how is that possible? Did it play round one with outt he
>>>book as well?
>>
>>Crafty won the first game so it is not important.
>
>You only have to look at the first game to see the book didn't count.  The
>opponent played a6 and h6, so my book has no replies for that position
>anyway. :)
>
>
>
>>
>>I guess there was no problem with the opening book in the first round(otherwise
>>the operator could care to fix the problem between the first and the second
>>round because crafty won very fast in the first round after the opponent tried
>>to do an illegal move).
>>
>>I guess that the problem was only in the second round and I understood also that
>>the problem was only in the second move and crafty played the first move against
>>rebel out of book.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I don't think it was out of book against Rebel.  IE it follows my book
>perfectly normally (book random 0 does cause it to search rather than
>play instantly, so Graham might have misunderstood what he was seeing.
>The problem move was playing e5, which I can't reproduce at all).

Did you include the pondering as well? Could it be something due to the
hardware? Hope not, or this will screw up my predictions in that contest at CSS.

                                     Albert Silver



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