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

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 14:34:06 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 16:20:49, Tony Werten wrote:

>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

On an earlier game, my friend said that Crafty played Ra1xBb4, but he didn't get
a screenshot of it.

kp

• 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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