Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:55:08 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 09:19:24, Tord Romstad wrote: >On August 18, 2005 at 07:23:14, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: > >>Hongkong 1995: Fritz (black) wins against Deep Thought, after a bad move 13.O-O >>castling in front of an open g-file. >> >>Reykjavik 2005: Again, Black has an (half-)open g-file, but castled himself >>16...O-O(?).. can he succeed? It looks very dangerous for Black. > >It does. The lack of king safety evaluation is one of Crafty's most serious >weaknesses. I very often see similar problems in my own tests against Crafty. > >Tord That is interesting, because this past week, I have played 43 games (long time control). 21 vs shredder, 5 vs prodeo, 10 vs junior, 1 vs gnuchess, 2 vs fruit, and a couple I don't remember, all via my "crafty" ICC handle. Care to guess how many times crafty's king safety caused a problem? Absolutely zero. So I'm not sure I buy the "very often" part of the above. It certainly has some king-safety issues, as does most programs I see playing. But it is not a "very often" issue. Unless you force Crafty to play certain openings that it doesn't normally like to play...
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