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Subject: Re: Junior-Crafty hardware user experiment - 18th game

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:08:09 12/21/03

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On December 21, 2003 at 23:03:40, Slater Wold wrote:

>On December 21, 2003 at 22:43:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 21, 2003 at 16:25:22, Peter Berger wrote:
>>
>>>For information about setup and rules:
>>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?336001
>>>
>>>I always thought comments with hindsight are for whimps.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately this will make yours truly look a little silly - ah well. It's
>>>probably time to think about getting another commentator anyway.
>>>
>>>Junior, bold and stubborn, again decides to repeat the C92 line involving the
>>>rather pointless pawn sac discussed before. Crafty repeats the promising line
>>>from game 14. Junior varies with 29. Qh5 this time. Soon an equal position is
>>>reached as Crafty's initial inititative didn't bring up anything real.
>>>
>>>The operator, lazily thinking about doing the report about yet another C92 draw,
>>>enters the moves on the board, 59. ...c2 included, just to suddenly wake up.
>>>Isn't black maybe in serious trouble by now?
>>>
>>>With the queens trade at move 61 he thinks: not really. After all the rook pawn
>>>in this opposite bishops endgame has the wrong colour, no real danger at all.
>>>
>>>The rest is silence. Embarassing for humble me ..
>>>
>>>What to learn? Don't mess with the Israelian ex-worldchampion maybe?
>>>
>>>For the match itself it's certainly the most interesting result though, reaching
>>>the (rather unexpected here) climax. What will happen next ? Will the good
>>>professor really have to resign ?
>>
>>
>>I'm not sure what that means.  :)  (will the good professor really have to
>>resign?)
>
>You said that if Crafty didn't win this match, you should retire from computer
>chess all together.  :)


No.  the 100:1 match.  I didn't say much about this 8:1 or 10:1 stuff at all.




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