Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:47:31 03/27/01
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On March 27, 2001 at 15:25:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. It does not prove that the line is bad. Programs can be wrong in their evaluation. White has a rook and a pawn for a knight but all the pieces are on the board. I am not convinced that white is winning. It will be interesting to see if Crafty can win with white against other chess programs from this opening. Uri
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