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Subject: Re: Very interesting position.. Crafty vs ProDeo

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 14:03:26 08/23/04

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On August 23, 2004 at 15:51:59, David Dahlem wrote:

>[D]6k1/1q3ppp/r7/1rp1P1n1/3p1P2/1P1R2PP/2Q4K/B4R2 b - - 0 1
>
>This position is taken from this thread:
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?383382
>
>I let Crafty play white and ProDeo play black from this position at 40 moves in
>80 minutes. Crafty liked 4.Qe2 for a long time, but finally switched to 4. Rdd1.
>There are a lot of critical positions in this game, and ProDeo seems to
>understand them all. Can any engine as white win or draw against ProDeo from
>this position?

After playing several moves without neither Crafty's nor Pro Deo's score
changing much, I think that Pro Deo gets its large evaluation from some
positional analysis. Maybe Ed let the "secret" out in a earlier post: if king is
exposed in the middle of the board with all enemy heavy pieces around then...
:-)



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