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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