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Subject: Re: Fritz Has A New Weapon

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:46:23 08/29/00

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On August 29, 2000 at 23:37:34, kurt wrote:

>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
>>
>>


Go to the position where Crafty played Nde2 (move 21) and try
Nxe6 instead.  (suggested by Uri).  I have played thru this a good
bit and it looks (to me) like black is busted.



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