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Subject: Re: Congratulations Bob!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:01:28 08/14/05

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On August 14, 2005 at 17:00:02, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On August 14, 2005 at 16:47:43, Darrel Briley wrote:
>
>>On August 14, 2005 at 15:22:43, Graham Banks wrote:
>>
>>>Best wishes for the remaining games. It would be really good for this to be the
>>>best Crafty ever! Fingers and toes crossed!
>>>
>>>Graham.
>>
>>1.5 with two blacks vs. Shredder and Junior.  Impressive indeed.
>>Congratulations Bob!
>>
>>                         DB
>
>As Bob has pointed out earlier this is pure luck.
>Crafty has serios tactical weaknesses as all the
>computer chess specialists know. Crafty is not even commercial,
>so how can this be explainded in any other way, but luck?
>Perhaps Bob has found a very old version and is running this now, 6.4?
>
>Anyway congratulations and
>Kind regards
>Bernhard


I'd bet that those "serious tactical weaknesses" are not to be found on this
hardware, at least until someone is searching far faster than I am...

Crafty's "serious tactical weaknesses" are more urban legend than fact...

It has some positional flaws but I did not feel like tackling them too close to
the WCCC, as fixes often introduce more serious problems...



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