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Subject: Re: Big hole in Crafty's book

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:38:16 08/16/02

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On August 15, 2002 at 08:34:10, Yuriy Lyapko wrote:

You are a volunteer to make for Bob a book for crafty?

If so he will welcome you with OPEN arms i bet!

How many of the 1 million problems the automatic book of crafty
has, will you correct within say 3 years of time?

1, this nc7?? move (which is a known pitfall by the way,
we all know nc7 loses of course. I knew that when i was 15
already).

10?

Or is it less than 10?

Best regards,
Vincent

>>Dear George,
>>
>>I don't think that 6.Nc7+? is the refutation, because instead of 6...Kf8? black
>>must play 6...Kd8! threatening both to capture the knight on c7 and to checkmate
>>on f2. The only move for white is 7.Bg5+ and after 7...Qxg5 8. Nxa8 Qf6! white
>>is doomed, eg. 9.f3 Qxb2 10.Nd2 Qc1-+ or 9.Qc1 Qxf2 10.Kd1 Be3 11.Nd2 b6-+
>>
>>Greetings
>>Alex
>
>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...
>At least for Crafty. It doesn't understand the position and I doubt that it will
>find the right moves in a reasonable time(especially after this one:1.e4 e5
>2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Qh4 5.Nb5 Bc5 6.Qe2(or Qf3) Nf6(last book move)
>7.Nxc7).
>
>Best regards,
>George



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