Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:40:44 08/29/00
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On August 29, 2000 at 14:20:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >Graham, > >both games were Najdorf classical mainline B99. > >I know this is hard to realize, but then you were already lost. > >That fritz didn't finish it like Kasparov there is quite logical, >even objective you usual make a chance, >yet you were never better as Crafty lost with >induction to the search. I don't agree with this yet. Nxe6 gives black a lot of trouble as well... > >In testgames crafty-fritz that must have been 0-100. > >On August 29, 2000 at 14:08:40, Graham Laight wrote: > >>>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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