Author: Majd Al-Ansari
Date: 07:14:09 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 09:48:19, Peter Berger wrote: >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 Definetely the losing move was 0-0. For humans that is so obvious, especially with so many heavy pieces lined up and black queen precariously placed to protect the king. A move like that should only be played with serious home preperation. I was under the impression it was a book move. If not then there seems a serious kind safety evaluation problem ... but maybe not. Shredder 9.1 UCI also like 0-0. Fruit 2.1 doesn't even consider that move. With such dangerous tactical positions good book is very important especially with dangerous tactical engines such as Junior 9, Shredder 9 and Fruit.
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