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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