Author: Will Singleton
Date: 08:47:10 11/07/04
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On November 07, 2004 at 01:50:05, Peter Skinner wrote:
>On November 06, 2004 at 11:07:14, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>r1bqnrk1/4n1bp/pp1p2p1/1N1PppN1/1PP5/4BB2/P4PPP/2RQR1K1 w - - bm Nc3; "Nxd6?";
>>5k2/4r2p/pq4p1/3Q1p2/1P1b4/4p3/P3BPPP/5RK1 w - - bm Rd1; "Bc4?";
>>8/4r2p/1Q4p1/4bpk1/8/8/P1q2pPP/1R3B1K w - - bm Qe3+; "Qd8?";
>>
>>These are all from the same game, 30 5 tc. The moves aren't outright blunders,
>>they just seem less than optimal.
>>
>>[Event "ICC 30 5"]
>>[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
>>[Date "2004.11.05"]
>>[Round "-"]
>>[White "crafty"]
>>[Black "Amateur"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>[ICCResult "White resigns"]
>>[WhiteElo "2567"]
>>[BlackElo "2534"]
>>[Opening "King's Indian: orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, bayonet attack"]
>>[ECO "E97"]
>>[NIC "KI.05"]
>>[Time "01:46:54"]
>>[TimeControl "1800+5"]
>>
>>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5
>>Ne7 9. b4 Nh5 10. Re1 f5 11. Ng5 Nf6 12. Bf3 c6 13. Be3 cxd5 14. exd5 b6 15.
>>Rc1 Ne8 16. Nb5 a6 17. Nxd6 Nxd6 18. c5 e4 19. cxd6 Qxd6 20. Bxb6 Qxb6 21.
>>d6 Ra7 22. Qb3+ Kh8 23. Nf7+ Kg8 24. dxe7 Rxe7 25. Rxc8 Rxf7 26. Rxf8+ Kxf8
>>27. Be2 Bd4 28. Rf1 Re7 29. Qd5 e3 30. Bc4 exf2+ 31. Kh1 Kg7 32. Qg8+ Kh6
>>33. Qf8+ Rg7 34. Rd1 Bc3 35. b5 axb5 36. Bf1 b4 37. Rd6 Qa5 38. Rd3 Be5 39.
>>Re3 Kg5 40. Rb3 Qc7 41. Qxb4 Qc1 42. Rb1 Qc2 43. Qb6 Re7 44. Qd8 Bf6 45. Qb8
>>Qd2 46. h4+ Kxh4 47. Rb3 Be5 48. Qf8 Rd7 49. Qb4+ Qxb4 50. Rxb4+ Kg5 51. g3
>>Bxg3 52. Kg2 f4 53. a4 Kh4 54. a5 g5 55. Rb6 h5 56. Rb1 Re7 57. a6 Re1 58.
>>Rb3 g4 59. a7 f3+ 60. Rxf3 gxf3+ 61. Kxf3 Ra1 62. a8=Q Rxa8 63. Be2 Kh3 64.
>>Bf1+ Kh2 65. Ke4 Kg1 66. Bc4 Ra4 67. Kd5 Rxc4 68. Kxc4 f1=Q+ 69. Kd5 h4 70.
>>Kc5 Qd3 71. Kc6 Bd6 72. Kd7 Qd5 73. Ke8 Qe6+ {White resigns} 0-1
>
>I was watching this game (and several others by Crafty) yesterday, and in quite
>a few game the moves played were less than optimal.
>
>Oddly when I turn off the swindle mode in Crafty, in games where it could have
>obtained a draw instead of playing a lesser move, Crafty plays the correct
>drawing move.
>
>I emailed Bob a few positions where the "swindle" move was less than perfect,
>and the correct drawing more when swindle move it turned off.
>
>I am still waiting for a reply.
>
>Peter
I don't have older versions of crafty, might be interesting to see if an older
version would make the same errors.
Will
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