Author: kurt
Date: 21:25:18 08/29/00
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On August 29, 2000 at 23:46:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. > >Correct,21.Ne6 Be6 22.Nd5 (Nc7)Qh2 23.Rg2 Qd6 24.Nf4 Qe5 looks ok for black. It should be easy for crafty to find its way-- faster than I can.
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