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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:53:20 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 17:34:06, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>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


I can't imagine what one would have to do to cause Crafty to behave like
this.  But anything is possible.  I would be very surprised if a GUI could
cause this.  Perhaps bad changes or a buggy compile could do the trick nicely,
however...



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