Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:14:37 08/23/01
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On August 23, 2001 at 05:40:53, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On August 23, 2001 at 05:19:12, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>Crafty - Quest >>-------------- >>After 1. Nc3 this became a sicilian, in which Crafty played a very >>dubious king move. Both now give a clear advantage to Black. > >Hahahaha! This was an intentional change made by the operator. He was afraid that after playing the d4/Bf4 opening several times, that Kure was going to cook something up for it. He elected to avoid 2. Nf3 and play a colle-type opening instead. No big deal. It didn't turn into a bad Sicilian at all... Which was the main goal. > >For those who missed it, see the thread below: > >>On August 20, 2001 at 21:49:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>One thing I can guarantee you, you will _not_ see a dead lost sicilian >>>opening by crafty. Absolutely 0.000000000 chance of that happening again. >>> >>>:) >> >>Think so? There are several things that can go wrong. >> >>a) bug in book code >>b) operator error >>c) late transposition >> >>Murphy will someday come and hunt you, Bob. >> >>-- >>GCP > > >I can guarantee you that there is no bug that is going to cause it to play >1. e4 as white. :) And should black try something cute like 1. d4 c5, we >aren't going to try to transpose with Nf3 or anything like that either. :) > >No chance. Our book isn't ridiculously wide, but at least we are going to >avoid the known bashes from London. One day it will play those lines just >fine, when I have time to tune it better. For the present, we go by the >philosophy "if you can't get it off your shoe, don't step in it." > >:) > >-- >GCP
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