Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:18:48 11/06/00
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On November 06, 2000 at 15:02:56, Garry Evans wrote: >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. It is obviously _very_ inferior. It only won the first CCT event, and finished in 2nd place in this one. Played _very_ badly is the only conclusion one can reach, right? > >>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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