Author: Peter Berger
Date: 06:48:19 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 09:01:51, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: >I was watching the game on playchess and looks like Fruit won the game. Very >impressive game considering Crafty was using 8 processors and Fruit only 1 >processor. But I have to admit I think that Crafty was caught by poor book >opening. I am not sure I completely agree with this assessment, at least not when put this way. The potentially controversial move is 11. ... g5 I suppose. I don't think this move is that bad at all, objectively. Let's move a little further: 12. Qd2 h6 13. Qc3 Qf6 14. Kh1 . Here Crafty played 14. ...Bb7?, that is clearly a bad idea. The king has to stay in the centre or castle queenside if necessary, the bishop belongs to d7 or e6 and then the rooks both belong to the kingside to attack white's king. After 14. ...Bb7 white has an edge, but black is not lost. After 15. f4 gxf4 16. Bxf4 the next critical point is reached. Here a possible move is 16...Rg8 e.g. - nothing to brag about, but black is still well alive. Instead 16. ..O-O ?? is just suicide. So yes - this line should never have been in Crafty's book, because it could not deal with it. I am to blame for that, so maybe 0.6 points were lost because of that - bad enough !! The rest is Crafty's fault, that just castled into it. Congrats to Fruit - nice game! Peter
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