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Subject: Re: CCT5 -- Crafty beats Ruffian

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:45:49 01/18/03

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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.



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