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Subject: Re: Crafty's Opening Play in WCCC 2004

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 00:55:51 07/15/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 21:49:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 13, 2004 at 17:12:39, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>I would agree.  I saw two openings that caught my eye.  The Falcon (I think)
>opening with the blocked center pawn was one.  The other was the SOS game with
>an early b3/Bb2 if I recall correctly.  Crafty doesn't deal with wing-type
>openings very well, which will cause it to generally play them pretty poorly
>since it is trying to directly influence the center more than it should when
>trying a b3/Bb2 type development.

Ah, you had a typo when you first mentioned the SOS game (h3 instead of b3).
Yes, I agree that Crafty didn't understand this position well - and I wouldn't
let it repeat this opening variation. I especially disliked Na3.

But the position after the opening still looked OK - Crafty underestimated the
free pawns of the opponent though.

>Nor do I.  Things went very well, IMHO.  It should not have lost the Fritz game.
> QPPP vs RRN is simply bad for the QPPP in 90% of the games.  I'll look at this
>to see what went wrong.

Frans Morsch mentioned that he gives a huge score for the queen in this kind of
position because they are nearly always won for the queen side :).

Btw - did you manage to backup the logfiles before the Quad Opteron was handed
back? It would be nice to be able to look at them - will you offer them for
download ?

Peter



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