Author: adam ruiz
Date: 19:00:31 11/16/03
Crafty is one of the two programs that more or less understand this kind of position, the other one is Junior but i suspect that it has to be with his style in general and no with the position itself. I also think that Fritz has no idea about how to play in long term (today it looks like Deep Blue!) and i am pretty sure that most program will play more or less that same way except for Crafty and Junior, when F.M. (Fritz author) said that Fritz reached a 19 ply depth (he think is a record) he surprise me because the position has no manny legal moves and is a close one, and of course He knows that "Deep" don´t help much there, anyway He seems to be very excited. The position is not that easy to win, and i don't think that Bd6 was a bad move, no if you play it thinking in f7-f5-f4 because this bishop (on b8 later) will help in that case, specially for that Xg3 square (after f4e3), the problem is that Fritz didn't realize the plan and then place te bishop back on e7. When playing in this level the opening book is just vital, because you want to avoid those positions that your program don't understand well (not easy of course) in that sense i think Fritz's team did a poorly job (who knows, maybe in the next game Fritz will play 1.c4??!!).. probably the next game will be a short draw, and i hate that because it make no sense, having the chance of match your program against such a oponent is a great oportunity because Kasparov (also Kramnik, Karpov and Anand) can show you the weakness of your program even in the case He lost the game, and everybody can learn from that.
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