Author: Garry Evans
Date: 12:02:56 11/06/00
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On November 06, 2000 at 11:02:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 06, 2000 at 00:23:55, kurt wrote: > >>>Replaying Nimzo vs Crafty highlights the need for >>>improving craftys book lines. >>>Craftys allowed Hossa a book draw.Choice of opening >>> a no no against a lower rated opponent. >>>Against Shredder it was out of book in 14 moves >>>with a minus score. >>>With a better book Crafty would have won first place. >>>Kurt Widmann > > >This wasn't a case of my getting "robbed". I don't do a lot of opening >preparation, but I do do _some_. But in this case, as I mentioned elsewhere, >we had a medical emergency (not in my immediate family) that caused me to >leave before round 3 was over. Since I didn't know who I would play, nor which >color I would be playing in round 4, I had to real way to prepare anything. > Excuses are like ***Holes Everybody's got one! I think crafty just got outplayed and is an inferior program truth be told. >When I play something cooked up by Alex, I know that I can't play traditional >stuff as he is too well-prepared for that. However, I didn't know that I would >be playing him in round 4, and as a result, I used the normal book, which just >happened to cough up the center counter. > >Nimzo is not weak, it could well have beaten me whether I played a better >opening or not. That is impossible to speculate about. It is possible that >I would have lost quicker had I played something I wanted to play. It is >possible that I would have won with a better opening. And of course, it is >also possible the game would have ended in a draw. > >It was just one tournament/game. I don't lose sleep over that. I wasn't >happy with the majority of the book positions I reached, but I was happy with >the play of Crafty after the program had to think on its own. Except maybe >for the nimzo game. I think it misplayed that even after leaving the book.
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