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Subject: Re: Crafty blazes new inroads in opening theory! Can your program find this?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 13:20:49 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 15:38:28, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>A friend of mine was playing a game between Gnuchess and wcrafty 18.15 under
>Arena 0.80, when Crafty made this somewhat astounding play:
>
>http://home.attbi.com/~kiprice/snap1.jpg
>
>Silly of gnuchess to move its knight and leave the pawn unprotected, eh? I guess
>my real question is, how can Arena cause Crafty to make such a play?
>
>hope the link works,
>kp

Crafty seem to have been planning Nxe5 wich was also illegal and this might have
confused Arena.

So question is why does Crafty want to play Nxe5 ?

Tony

• Re: Crafty blazes new inroads in opening theory! Can your program find this? Keith Ian Price 14:34:06 08/20/02
  • Re: Crafty blazes new inroads in opening theory! Can your program find this? Robert Hyatt 18:53:20 08/20/02
    • Re: Crafty blazes new inroads in opening theory! Can your program find this? Keith Ian Price 19:34:20 08/20/02
    • Re: Crafty blazes new inroads in opening theory! Can your program find this? Robert Hyatt 18:55:17 08/20/02
      • Any UCI versus Winboard experts out there? Keith Ian Price 19:39:45 08/20/02
        • Re: Any UCI versus Winboard experts out there? Robert Hyatt 21:20:14 08/20/02

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