Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:15:26 08/21/00
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On August 21, 2000 at 17:06:17, Albert Silver wrote: >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 I am not yet sure what happened. I don't see how it could follow the Qc7 line at all, as it knows it is not a good variation. A puzzle at the moment, but I have sent Graham a work-around to at least not get tricked like this again. I still wonder why it chose such a line, but I won't know until I see all the log files from the tournament...
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