Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 20:20:02 01/15/04
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On January 15, 2004 at 20:41:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On January 15, 2004 at 17:07:01, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2004 at 16:27:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 15, 2004 at 15:09:07, Geoff wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>I suspect Mr Kasparov would probably want a few dollars before considering that
>>>>option.
>>>>It made me wonder who is the strongest human opponent Crafty has played against?
>>>>I would be intrigued to know what the match score was ?
>>>>
>>>> Geoff
>>>>
>>>>PS
>>>>Thanks to Prof. Hyatt for the links to the online papers. Some interesting
>>>>reading material there.
>>>
>>>
>>>It's played Shirov a lot of blitz. Won most. It's played Karpov some
>>>games and won them all but the sample size was small and it was a couple of
>>>years ago. It has played Yasser, Benjamin, Kamsky, I'd hate to try to name
>>>them all...
>>>
>>>It does very well at blitz, winning probably 90%. At game/30 it wins way
>>>more than it loses. Beyond that, who knows...
>>
>>Has anyone ever beated Crafty in such a convincing way?
>>The game was played immediately after reading your post. I saw no engine output
>>and didn't analyze the opening before the game.
>>But it helped a lot to know that Crafty will never take on g5. People on ICC
>>who don't read CCC do not know this.
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>
>>[Event "Blitz:10'+10""]
>>[Site "AMD 1.6 Ghz"]
>>[Date "????.??.??"]
>>[Round "?"]
>>[White "Drexel"]
>>[Black "Crafty 19.08"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[PlyCount "47"]
>>[TimeControl "600+10"]
>>
>>{64MB, Shredder8.ctg, ATHLONXP} 1. c3 {0} b6 {0} 2. d4 {3} Bb7 {0} 3. Nf3 {3}
>>e6 {0.51/12 57} 4. Bg5 {(e3) 7} Nf6 {0.22/12 40} 5. Nbd2 {6} Be7 {0} 6. e3 {
>>(h4) 137} c5 {0} 7. Bd3 {(h3) 4} O-O {0} 8. Qe2 {(e4) 14} h6 {0.24/11 30} 9. h4
>>{(Bh4) 26} cxd4 {0.52/10 29} 10. exd4 {3} Qc7 {0.61/10 26} 11. O-O-O {11} Nc6 {
>>0.52/10 16} 12. Kb1 {6} Rac8 {0.60/10 22} 13. g4 {(Bxf6) 50} Nxg4 {0.25/10 28}
>>14. Rdg1 {(Rhg1) 29} h5 {0.25/10 27} 15. Nh2 {(Rg2) 132} f6 {-0.22/10 35} 16.
>>Nxg4 {(Be3) 28} hxg4 {0.69/10 50} 17. Qxg4 {23} f5 {1.55/9 5} 18. Qh5 {(Qg2) 87
>>} Rf7 {1.81/10 34} 19. Nf3 {26} Bd6 {3.51/11 70} 20. Bc1 {(Be3) 90} Ne7 {
>>3.91/10 53} 21. Ng5 {4} g6 {8.49/10 17} 22. Nxf7 {9} Bg3 {9.04/10 13} 23. Rxg3
>>{(Nh6+) 13} Kxf7 {12.02/10 64} 24. Qh7+ {5} 1-0
>
>
>It happens. But in long and serious games, the anti-trojan stuff is always
>turned off by me, manually. It is really important for blitz games, where
>the depth is not sufficient to avoid the mate when it is possible... On fast
>hardware, I'd probably turn it off all the time, in fact... Except for bullet
>games which is really the only place it had trouble with this before (2 1 games
>for example).
I don't think my attack in this game was unsound.
Crafty never had the chance to take that bishop.
Knowing it will probably never take makes it just easier for me since I don't
have to calculate those lines.
[D] rn1q1rk1/pb1pbppp/1p2pn2/2p3B1/3P4/2PBPN2/PP1NQPPP/R3K2R b KQ - 0 8
I delayed castling with Qe2 and Crafty played h6. That's a serious strategical
mistake IMO. Chances are high that it would play h6 also on a Dual or Quad.
You don't weaken your Kingside before White has castled short in this positions.
Either you play h6 _before_ castling yourself (so that white is forced to move
that bishop) or you play it after white has castled short. You don't play it at
all if white has castled long.
Michael
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