Author: stuart taylor
Date: 17:56:08 08/29/00
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On August 29, 2000 at 13:58:52, Graham Laight wrote: >What Fritz did here is the same as it did to 2 other opponents in London - >speculative sacrifice. > >It gave away its knight to expose the black king. > >At first, it's eval was good. After a few moves, its eval went negative. >Crafty's eval remained between +1 and +2 for a long time. However, the >positional strengths it had created eventually swung the game back in its >favour. Was this done by some new feature? If so, which? Or was it something not quite intended, or best, but happened to work out good anyway, and -by the way- pretty? > >I think if Chris Whittington had got CS-Tal doing these sacs, he would have been >shouting it from the rooftops! > >-g If he did it 2-3 years ago, why not? But does this mean that Fritz has caught up with CSTAL but more sound at the same time? (no comparison, of course - when beauty and truth agree). S.Taylor
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