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Subject: Re: Example win vs. crafty

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:05:03 06/26/01

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On June 26, 2001 at 01:40:53, Uri Blass wrote:

>What is the name of the program you played against?

This was crafty.

>I guess that it must be a bad program if it played Qf7 and not fxg5 in 120/40
>time control.

I was not playing in 120/40, but in analysis mode. This game was not meant
to show a win a tournament style time controls, but to show an example
of how computers can misplay this position. It was not played under fair
conditions, so to say.

I am not very hopefull in beating crafty on my Athlon 1000 because I am
only a 1200 player and I doubt there are positions where crafty actually
plays that bad.

I do not believe craftys plays this position significantly better at
longer timecontrols based on what I have seen on ICC and the simple
fact that crafty contains a lot of code to avoid these positions because
Robert knows it cannot play them.

>It seems that one of your weaknesses in chess is playing unsound sacrifices.
>
>11.Bxh7+ is a mistake in this game.

Possibily. I was afraid that the bishop would be shut in so I used
it to weaken craftys kingside before that happened. I am pretty sure
it was not sound but it did not prevent me from 'winning' the game.

The game vs the amateur program was played in fair conditions and
it lost (read that as: it walked into mate before I messed up) in
a very similar way.

--
GCP



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