Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:19:45 05/10/98
Hi Bob: I just downloaded crafty 14,9 and as much as never I have been capable to get a decent library for it it happens I currently polay without it againts your criature; is, besides, a way to do things differently. Well, to my amazement Crafty followed thjis line: d2d4 d7d5 c2c4 dxc g1f3 Qd5?? b1c3 Qa5 ?? Bd2 Qb6?? e2e4 c6 Bxc4 Qxbp?? O-0 e6 a3 Qb6 (forced, of course) I left here the game. As you see, black has not developed nothing and white is a model of development and many threats are coming. Just e5 lets black desperately cramped, to begin with. Now my question: how a so powerful and reputed program can play so badly just because he is not aided by the book? Don't you expect from a modern, top program a kind of decent understanding even if he has no book? Not even a beginner with a couple of lessons play Qxbp or just go with the queen from one place to another. Or Crafty 14,9 just went badly out of the production line? My feeling is -yes, feelings; I don't dare to have "ideas" any more in this so technical group- that a good test of chess understanding of modern programs is how well or bad they play the opening without the ortopedic aid of a book. I thought that they had to have an inbuilt device in the code to avoid such a awful play. My computer is a 200 MMX intel. I hope you tell me that Crafty 14,9 was a disaster and has been condemned to firing squad... :-) fernando
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