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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