Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:16:52 07/08/04
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On July 08, 2004 at 06:22:15, Peter Berger wrote: >On July 07, 2004 at 22:56:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 07, 2004 at 20:55:10, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>>On July 07, 2004 at 11:51:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>...in the blitz tournament :) >>>> >>>>Couldn't get a PGN yet. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>GCP >>> >>>Whew - I thought you meant at long time controls. We all know anything cna >>>happen in Blitz, just ask Topalov. >>> >>>;>) >> >> >>I have not looked at the games. But Peter and I discussed this and we chose to >>use my wide-open ICC book for these games to avoid giving away anything about >>his tournament preparation. >> >>I knew that we would bust one or more openings. The one thing I forgot is that >>I cleverly copied my binary books from my xeon to the opteron. Doesn't work. >>90% of my book was unusable leading to some bizarre opening choices. I did that >>late at night and just forgot that even though the opteron and xeon are both >>little-endian, the opteron has a longer struct padding (to 8 bytes rather than 4 >>bytes) which kills my binary book copy. >> >>Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. >> >>I should have remembered. :( > >That's a wrong summary of the Crafty-Diep game in the blitz tournament IMHO. I don't believe I said that was a summary of the Crafty-Diep game. :) >Crafty played a good line out of its default (and maybe broken) book and reached >a nice advantage against Diep's Ben-Oni . But Diep played a very cute king >attack that met Crafty out of the blue. > >Unfortunately engine Diep has an internal parameter to get excited and start >celebrating once it beats Crafty, so that it wasn't able to concentrate properly >on the rest of the games. > >Actually there were no bad booklines for Crafty in the blitz tournament at all, >as far as I can tell. Most interesting game was probably the final round against >SOS where in the final position SOS could have won in a complicated matter by >sacrifying rook and bishop to get its pawns running, but it didn't have enough >time to find it and so went for the repetition. > >Crafty couldn't save the games, but they can be reconstructed out of the >logfiles later. > >The games against Shredder and Junior were quite interesting draws and against >Junior Crafty at a point came quite close to winning, but it wasn't enough as >Shredder performed too well. > >But one can't and shouldn't complain about finishing 2nd I'd say :), especially >if the program has to be operated in textmode .. > >Peter No complaints here at all. My only complaint was that I had forgotten about the book incompatibility issue. If it didn't hurt that's good. I did notice several cases where it was out of book way too early, which was the clue that the book was broken when I looked at the logs...
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