Author: Will Singleton
Date: 09:19:56 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 10:55:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... After a long search, Shredder 7.04 would also castle kside: 16...0-0 17.Rad1 c5 18.Qg3+ Qg7 19.Nc3 Qxg3 20.Bxg3 Rae8 21.Nd5 Re6 22.Nf6+ Kg7 23.Bxe5 dxe5 24.Nd7 Rfe8 25.Bc4 ± (0.72) Depth: 15/39 00:09:51 250199kN
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