Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:49:49 03/27/01
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On March 27, 2001 at 17:47:31, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Good question. A few months back I posted a similar game against a GM, where Crafty came out of book at -5, but went on to build a vicious attack and win the game. However, against a computer, I think such lines are suspect, to say the least...
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