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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:05:37 07/15/04

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On July 15, 2004 at 03:55:51, Peter Berger wrote:

>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 :).

He's wrong.  Let him continue that.  Diep did the same thing many times, in fact
Vincent added something like +2 or +3 for having a queen for two rooks.  If
there are a couple of open files, that's hopeless to do.

>
>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 ?


Yes, I copied them last night.  I'll try to rename the right ones to roundN.log
and create a wccc directory on the ftp box.  Your account on my dual will remain
 around, and I'll put them over there as well...



>
>Peter



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