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Subject: Re: Congrats for the nice win against Junior!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:56:43 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 12:41:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 15, 2005 at 11:15:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2005 at 10:46:33, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>really a good job from your team!
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Sandro
>>
>>
>>Peter's doing pretty well with openings, for certain.  It's a royal pain to try
>>to pull that off year after year.  I did it too many years to remember.
>>
>>Program/hardware is playing well, as expected.  But Peter has to get us into
>>positions that are not dead lost at the beginning, so the credit goes to him so
>>far...
>
>Not exactly
>
>It is easy to get you into positions that are not dead lost in the beginning by
>a small book.
>The problem is to get you to positions that Crafty can play well in them.
>
>Uri


Crafty can play most positions just fine, if "crafty" thinks that the initial
out-of-book position is reasonable...  That's what Peter is doing...

Just "not dead lost" is NFG...



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