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Subject: Re: Crafty's adventurous king

Author: Telmo C. Escobar

Date: 11:51:37 04/30/04

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On April 30, 2004 at 06:43:19, Bryan Hofmann wrote:

>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.

 Well, I gave the above game because I was interested in it, but I remember
watching games by more recent versions lost in similar way. It could be -I don´t
know for sure- that king safety has not modified in recent versions. Maybe Bob
Hyatt could say something about.

 I was informed that one can add a parameter in the crafty.rc configuration file
that presumably gauges king safety up.

 Needless to say, I don´t know if experimenting with a single parameter will
really improve results. Bet it doesn´t- yet I´m interested in seeing.

  Telmo



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