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Subject: Re: Fritz Has A New Weapon

Author: kurt

Date: 20:37:34 08/29/00

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On August 29, 2000 at 20:56:08, stuart taylor wrote:

>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
>
>Well..beauty or hard work from fritzes book team.
> lets look at the position after Craftys move 16.a3????
>this move invites black to play b4 ripping whites king to pieces.
>Crafty had no defence after allowing 16..h5!! (Supper GM Move}
>Crafty was let into a position with no threads to detect.
>It faces a minjority pawn attack at his queen side,where the 2 nights
>are no match for 1rook,2bishops,1queen plus to pawns to give away.
>Human players would see that and take appropriate steps.
>Craftys engine should not be guided into such positions until its
>knowledge allows it cope addequately wiht such positions.
>
>congratulations "Fritz Team" for move 16...h5! Good work!
>Best regards , Kurt Widmann
>
>



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