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Subject: Re: DIEP in WMCCC2000 London - long story

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 11:08:40 08/29/00

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>Crafty however had lost chanceless on book against Nimzo with white.
>It would play against the EXACTLY same book against Fritz now for sure,
>a sure zero again. 100% chance. Now i
>WARNED Graham that it was NOT a good idea to again play the same line
>against Fritz.
>
>"learning will prevent that, and don't tell them i have a different book too".
>
>But he did not CHECK whether in that different book a different line
>would get played, despite warnings that it would happen. If you use an
>automatically
>generated book there is 100% chance you lose against the Kure book in the
>Najdorf,
>you can only hope the engine crashes somewhere playing thereby a help mate in 1
>move.
>
>In fact this 'new' crafty book was even more pathetic as against Nimzo.
>It didn't even know the Rg1-g7 moves.
>
>I don't need to mention that it lost in the 9th round in
>exactly the same mainline against
>Fritz as it did against Nimzo.

Actually, Crafty played into a very different game against Fritz than it did
against Nimzo. Crafty appeared to have the advantage for much of the game
against Fritz, because Fritz (after Crafty had played a different line)
sacrificed a knight to expose Crafty's king (and to create a kingside passed
pawn, which was eventually used to win the game).

If you wish to see this for yourself, look at the games on the ICCA web site -
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~olympiad/

Crafty v Fritz was round 9, Crafty V Nimzo was either round 3 or 4.

-g

>Now suppose Graham had not ignored my warning, and he would have been more
>fanatic
>to NOT lose the same line for the second time. I'm SURE it would not have
>mattered,
>because how in the world could he change the crafty book within say 5 minutes?
>
>He would NEVER have managed this.



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