Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:45:49 01/18/03
Go up one level in this thread
On January 18, 2003 at 15:46:20, John Merlino wrote: >On January 18, 2003 at 15:41:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 18, 2003 at 15:39:33, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>A fun game to watch, but I think that Ruffian's questionable time usage might >>>have played a part in the outcome. Crafty had over 13 minutes left on its clock, >>>and was never in any real trouble. Ruffian hit the 10 minute mark around move >>>40, and ended with just over 4 minutes.... >> >>Ruffian had a couple of bad fail lows to deal with. If you watched the whole >>game, it did fine until it got into the middle of the kingside attack, and it >>had to start thinking a long time to avoid getting smashed... > >Agreed. However, IIRC, at this point Crafty had about 30 minutes left on its >clock, and Ruffian had about 17. And things just got worse from there. > >Also, FYI, Chessmaster 9000's evals were consistently about one point less than >Crafty's from the middlegame on. > >jm It was very optimistic. When it sacrificed the pawn for purely positional compensation, I was pretty sure it would backfire. But, it turned out fine, barely.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.