Author: Kurt Widmann
Date: 08:35:05 07/12/04
Congratulations for crafty's improvements. I am not a programmer,just a cheerleader for the under dog crafty and always hoping that your program will be an equal to Fritz and Jumior. In this tournament I noticed a glaring weakness of crafty as to the exploitation of its own strength ie protected passer and also the reluctance to acceptance a draw against same or higher rated opponent which resulted in the loss of 1.5 points. It seems to me that crafty needs instructions to remove these weaknesses. In two games crafty was missled to attack an appearant opponent weakness instead of playing to its strenght,in both cases it was the c-pawn. Why not try to instruct your program to persue searh in favor to advance its own protected pawn if it can not find a value gain from going after an opponents weakness within and or go into a defencive mode at a certain horizon limit. And also take into consideration the rating of its opponent in an appearant equal position to secure a draw first before imparking into uncertainties. Keep reaching for the top, Kurt Widmann a former ICCF player.
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