Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:14:51 08/29/00
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On August 29, 2000 at 11:50:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 29, 2000 at 11:44:24, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I can say that Fritz did not get a winning position out of book against Crafty. >> >>I found that Crafty17.11 can find 21.Nxe6 against Fritz with more time. >>[D]1r2kb1r/2qb1p2/p3pP2/1pp5/3NP2p/P1N2Q2/2P4P/1K1R1BR1 w k - 0 1 >> >> >>Unfortunately Crafty did not have good alpha that it probably needed in order to >>find this move. >> >>Uri > >Oh well Fritz searching 13 ply extending lots of checks and doing >checks in qsearch against crafty with crafty a king nearly mated and >searching 12 to 13 ply without doing checks in qsearch. Note that >fritz has also a lot of threat extensions. > >Crafty repeated exactly the same line as against Nimzo. Very dumb. > >So it was dead lost from all sides. > >Play 100 games crafty here against DIEP, Fritz, Nimzo, Zchess, SOS, >Shredder or anything that is doing either a lot of checks or doing >checks in qsearch. Bye Bye crafty. Crafty in Najdorf is a zero in advance >at icc it basically plays e6 d6 systems. NOT aggressive najdorf systems. > I think checks in the q-search is an exaggerated advantage. I play all of the above programs on ICC, all the time, and I am not getting rolled into a ball by any of them.n Didn't you play a bunch of games vs crafty using a quad 550 xeon for Diep? Did those q-search checks make a big difference? >So selecting this opening is stupid in advance anyway, like i discovered >with DIEP in Caro-Kann. I don't think it is a bad opening. I generally don't play the Sicilian as black against computers. As white, I alternate between d4 and e4 openings so black will get a chance to play Sicilians. At a reasonable time control, my quad will find nxe6. My PII/400 notebook fails low at 5 minutes. The xeon would probably fail low at the 1-1.5 min mark. It would then use as much time as needed and would certainly find Nxe6. I am surprised that the alpha didn't have time to find this, or at least have time to fail low at depth-14, which is strange.
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