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Subject: Re: Crafty's adventurous king

Author: Bryan Hofmann

Date: 03:43:19 04/30/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 19:57:44, Telmo C. Escobar wrote:

>
>  Does somebody know whether there is some way to make Crafty be a bit more
>careful about its king? The following game features a common accident of
>Crafty's. A human player could be not able to calculate, several moves before,
>that 41...f5+! would be a winner, but we are used to think that such an
>adventurous king invites disaster.
>
>  Telmo
>
>
>[Event "Computer chess tournament"]
>[Site "Athlon 1200"]
>[Date "2004.4.29"]
>[Round "04"]
>[White "Crafty 17.14 SMP"]
>[Black "Chessmaster 8000"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[TimeControl "3600"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Bf4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bb4+ 6. Nbd2 Qe7 7. e3
>Ngxe5 8. Nxe5 Nxe5 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Bxd2 11. Qxd2 d6 12. Rfe1 Bf5 13. f3
>Be6 14. c5 Rfd8 15. cxd6 cxd6 16. b3 f6 17. Rac1 d5 18. Rc3 Rac8 19. Rec1
>Rxc3 20. Rxc3 Nc6 21. Rc1 d4 22. Bb5 Qb4 23. Qe2 dxe3 24. Qxe3 Qxb5 25.
>Qxe6+ Kh8 26. Re1 Qb6+ 27. Be3 Qa5 28. Re2 h6 29. Qf7 Rd1+ 30. Kf2 Ne5 31.
>Qe6 Qd8 32. Bf4 Nd3+ 33. Kg3 Nxf4 34. Kxf4 Qc7+ 35. Kg4 Rd8 36. g3 Qc1 37.
>Qf5 Qc7 38. h4 Qd6 39. f4 Qd1 40. Qc2 Qf1 41. Re7 f5+ 42. Kxf5 Qh3+ 43. g4
>Qxh4 44. Qc5 Qf6+ 45. Ke4 b6 46. g5 Qg6+ 47. Qf5 Rd4+ 48. Kxd4 Qxf5 49. Re4
>hxg5 50. fxg5 Qxg5 51. Re2 Kh7 52. Ke4 Qg4+ 53. Kd3 Qg3+ 54. Kd4 a6 55. Re3
>Qf4+ 56. Kd3 Qf5+ 57. Kd4 Qc5+ 58. Ke4 Qc2+ 59. Ke5 Qxa2 60. Rh3+ Kg6 61.
>Rg3+ Kh5 62. Re3 Kg4 63. Re4+ Kf3 64. Rf4+ Kg3 65. Rf7 g5 66. Rd7 Qxb3 67.
>Kf6 Qc3+ 68. Kf7 b5 69. Re7 b4 70. Kg8 b3 71. Re8
>0-1

You might want to consider using a more current version of Crafty. The current
release is 19.12.





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