Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:41:46 06/05/01
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On June 04, 2001 at 08:30:55, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >On June 04, 2001 at 04:20:59, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>The choosen opening [Stonewall] is in so far already old fashioned as there are >>hundred of examples showing that with this pattern you can beat all chess >>computer programs. AnMon is therefore not to blame for the defeat, the chess >>programs are nowadys [still] absolutely helpless against this kind of attack. > >So there's no way AnMon can avoid this kind of formation (Stonewall with colors >reversed)? >How does Crafty handles these kind of positions? What about Tiger "anti-human" >and Rebel "anti-GM" ? > >A. Ponti Crafty recognizes the "pattern". The main problem is that if black is stuck with pawns on d5 and e6, then he has a huge problem in getting pieces over to the king-side after castling. His c8 bishop is trapped behind the e6 pawn, for example. In the case of Crafty, it simply tries to avoid castling on the king-side once it recognizes the stonewall pattern in the pawns (this is a "fuzzy match" of course.) It waits to castle until it is really necessary, which makes white commit to the kingside attack or queen-side expansion first, which avoids the trouble almost all of the time.
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