Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 09:55:48 11/09/00
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On November 09, 2000 at 12:49:07, Bruce Moreland wrote: >In this game, Tiger was white and had an attacking setup. Crafty got pretty >passive and Tiger was very aggressive. Crafty didn't do anything particularly >stupid to get into this situation, I can imagine any program having problems in >that position. You can't blame someone for playing black and getting >king-attacked in a Sicilian. But Tiger could not break through. Crafty >defended well and counterattacked. The balance shifted to neutral around the >time Crafty played ... d4. ok - now it was the opening. which opening shall i setup to make you feel confident ? 1.a3 a6 ? is that symmetrical enough NOT to say: it was the opening ?! ok - i will do it from a3 a6 and you will hopefully NOT say: the opening was good for gambit-tiger. >This isn't about inaccuracy or accuracy or anything else. It's about being >aggressive and kicking heads. Tiger played very aggressively and turned all of >its units into attacking units. right. and very consequent and very penetrant. > I think Crafty's evaluation was low. But the >fact remains that Tiger's evaluation was not borne out, the attack couldn't >overwhelm a point in Crafty's position. good. >For those expecting to see a sacrificial attack here, it didn't happen. (By the >way, in another post, I said Tiger had not made any long-term sacrifices, and I >was talking about in my games, not in the game where it played Rc6, which is an >obvious long-term sacrifice.) ok - i see. gambit is no god. it cannot make wonders real. if there were no long-range sacs, maybe ferret was too good to allow them. >It was BN vs R and two more pawns. Tiger made a very obvious exchange sacrifce. > I don't know why Crafty didn't see it. Mine thinks the game is about even >prior to the sacrifice, and it takes it 2.7 seconds to get a score of in excess >of +1 on that sacrifice, and it's a good +1, I think it knows what is going on. >I think that anything could find that. >Pretty good game for Tiger, not a particularly good game for Crafty. Not a >particularly good example if you are trying to present a clash of ideologies. >bruce ok - next follows a3 a6 game...
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