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Subject: Re: First miniature win against crafty, but a hollow victory it is :(

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:25:31 03/27/01

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On March 27, 2001 at 13:10:03, ERIQ wrote:

>Hey this is my first win against a senior master player that was a miniature :)
>so first I would like to thank all the people that helped me get where I am
>today.
>
> Mr. Brown a correspondence expert that show me this line About a month ago. Dr.
>Hyatt for his fine program. Myself for setting the resign threshold to 3. Woops
>maybe shouldn?t have mentioned that.
>
>Actually I was wondering If this wasn?t just a bad line and if so why is it in
>opening books ?? This seems to just get black killed right away. Sorry I guess
>this is more a chess question than a computer one. I after the surprising
>resignation of crafty decided to let tiger play it out with crafty to see if
>indeed it was just that bad of a situation.


It is just a bad book line.  On my machine, crafty comes out of book at
+4.5 (good for white) the first time it has to think.  It would not normally
play such a gross line except that the book is set to play fairly wide choices
to provide variety.

reduce 'book width' setting and this will not happen.

also resign=3 is not a great idea.  I have seen GM players lose games where
Crafty was down a rook or more...



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