Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 15:22:58 10/29/01
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OK. First my apologies to Dr. Hyatt. Now that I have my eyeballs screwed in
straight I can explain what happened. But first I am happy that the crafty
analysis is indeed + favoring white and - favoring black, what I call absolute.
SCID is a very flexible database and I was experimenting with the player's
statistic window and had set a filter to my games as black and had saved a file
of that filter. I then set the filter to my lost games and had saved a file of
that filter. I ran both files, one at a time, through the crafty annotate
command and was then reviewing the analysis in SCID. Unfortunately, as I was
reviewing the "my losses" file I was thinking that I was the black player. In
the game in question, I was actually the white player and at move 25. crafty
gave a lower, closer to zero, value for its move as opposed to the move played
so I started to interpret the evaluations as relative rather than absolute and
just got totally confused. I wasn't looking too closely to the previous moves
as I was really trying to find where I had lost it after the Bishop sac.
Anyway, I have included the game and I just have to be careful to remember which
color I am.
[Event "Team Championship"]
[Site "Hatboro"]
[Date "1998.11.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Coladonato, Steve"]
[Black "McKenney, Ed"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "Crafty v17.9"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Be2 Be7 8.Qd2
( {9:+0.13} 8.Qd2 h6 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.O-O O-O 11.Rad1 Qc7 12.Qf4 Nd7 = )
( {9:+0.33} 8.Qd3 O-O 9.O-O h6 10.Be3 e5 11.Nf5 Bxf5 12.exf5 += )
8...Qc7 9.Bf3
( {9:+0.22} 9.Bf3 h6 10.Be3 Nc6 11.O-O Nxd4 12.Qxd4 O-O 13.Rad1 Bd7 =
)
( {9:+0.41} 9.O-O h6 10.Be3 Nc6 11.f4 O-O 12.Rad1 Nxd4 += )
9...Nbd7 10.O-O O-O 11.Rfe1 Rb8 12.a4 Ne5 13.Be2 Bd7 14.Nf3 Ng6 15.Bd3
( {9:-0.06} 15.Bd3 h6 16.Be3 Ng4 17.Ba7 Rbd8 18.Bd4 N6e5 19.Be2 = )
( {9:+0.15} 15.h3 Rbd8 16.Rad1 Bc6 17.Qd4 h6 18.Be3 d5 19.e5 = )
15...Bc6 16.Nd4 h6 17.Bxh6
( {10:-1.79} 17.Bxh6 gxh6 18.Nxc6 bxc6 19.Nd1 a5 20.Qxh6 Ng4 21.Qh3
N6e5 22.c4 -+ )
( {10:-0.10} 17.Be3 Ng4 18.Nxc6 bxc6 19.Rab1 Nxe3 20.Qxe3 Bg5 21.Qd4
Bf6 22.Qc4 a5 = )
17...gxh6 18.Qxh6 Nh7 19.Nxe6 fxe6 20.Qxg6+ Kh8 21.e5 Bh4 22.g3 dxe5 23.
Qxe6
( {10:-0.75} 23.Qxe6 Bf6 24.Nd5 Bxd5 25.Qxd5 Ng5 26.Qg2 Rbd8 27.h4 Ne6
28.Rad1 -/+ )
( {10:+1.73} 23.Qxh7+ Qxh7 24.Bxh7 Kxh7 25.gxh4 Rf5 26.Ne4 Rg8+ 27.Kf1
Bd5 28.b3 Rgf8 29.Ng5+ Kg6 30.Re2 +- )
23...Rbe8 24.Qh3
( {9:-1.12} 24.Qh3 Qf7 25.Ne4 Be7 26.Qf1 Ng5 27.Nxg5 Bxg5 28.Be4 Bxe4
29.Rxe4 -/+ )
( {9:-0.69} 24.Qg4 Bd8 25.Bg6 Re7 26.Re3 Rg7 27.Qh5 Bg5 28.Rd3 =+ )
24...Qf7 25.Rf1
( {10:-1.64} 25.Rf1 Qf3 26.Be4 Bxe4 27.Nxe4 Qxe4 28.Qxh4 Qxh4 29.gxh4
Rg8+ 30.Kh1 Rc8 31.Rac1 Kg7 -+ )
( {10:-1.09} 25.Ne4 Be7 26.Re2 Rd8 27.Nd2 Bc5 28.Rf1 Kg8 29.Bxh7+ Qxh7
30.Qe6+ Rf7 31.Qxe5 Qxc2 -/+ )
25...Qf3 26.Be4 Bxe4 27.Nxe4 Qxe4 28.Qxh4 Qxh4 29.gxh4 Nf6 30.Rae1
( {10:-2.04} 30.Rae1 Rg8+ 31.Kh1 Rg4 32.b3 Rxh4 33.f3 Kg7 34.Rg1+ Kf7
35.Re2 Reh8 36.Reg2 -+ )
( {10:-1.89} 30.f3 e4 31.Rf2 e3 32.Re2 Nd5 33.Rd1 Nf4 34.Kf1 Kg7 -+ )
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