Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:18:42 07/15/04
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On July 15, 2004 at 11:05:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. The question is what he means by the words "this kind of position" He may mean not only to the material score but also to other conditions. Uri
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