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Subject: Re: Big hole in Crafty's book

Author: Yuriy Lyapko

Date: 06:19:51 08/15/02

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On August 15, 2002 at 09:09:44, Dan Andersson wrote:

>>
>>I've never said that it is a refutation, but there is a thing I strongly
>>believe:
>>such short risky lines(with 3-4 pawns down by engine's point of view) should not
>>be present in the book...
>What a strange position to take. As long as it plays the position correctly it
>should be OK. Safety first thinking is almost never acceptable when playing
>chess. You have to accept some assymetries in a position to have a reasonable
>chance of winning. Especially if you are the better player.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

But the problem is that it can't play the position correctly...
On my relatively slow AMD K6-2/450 it will play 6...Kf8?? in that line even
after  1 hour of thinking and will loose that position to most 300 ELO weaker
engines/humans...

Best regards,
George



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