Author: kurt
Date: 21:53:18 08/29/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 00:25:18, kurt wrote: >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 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. > >I had another look at the position and could not find a win for white. >after 25.Ne6 fe6 26.f7 Ke7 holds for black. I will look at it some more. >Does crafty find a way out? >Have a good night!
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