Author: Harald Faber
Date: 07:18:02 07/13/99
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On July 13, 1999 at 10:08:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>Earlier tonite, Crafty was involved in a match with GM Loek van Wely on >>>ICC. 5 3 time control, and crafty was winning about its normal percentage >>>against him (about 80%, match was 9 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw at the point >>>where the following game was played). In this game, Crafty was >>>in book until move 23. As we passed move 20, I was counting pawns >>>and pieces and concluded white was probably lost. At move 23, >>>Crafty's first search said -4.00, and I thought aha, book learning >>>to the rescue as this is dead lost. But without spoiling anything, >>>this was the result. :) >> >>Here you see again that search depth and eval of king safety suffer. >>Counting material is not always the key for winning... >>The line looks forced until move #31 and instantly black blundered with >>31...gxh3. However, this position is hard to play with black... >> > >I disagree about the 'eval' issue. We had over 200 folks observing this >'match'. Including 5 GM players. All thought white was totally lost. One >said "now if he only doesn't make a mistake..." Seems to me as if they didn't take a closer look at the black king. >Btw, Crafty played against GMs for a long while... van Wely, followed by >Roman, followed by Piket with a few Shirov's thrown in to the mix. It's >current ICC rating is 3240... ICC ratings are exaggerating. And most of the games are played like this one with short time controls. It is well known that programs are almost unbeatable at g/5, even with increment. And Crafty is known to be the most dangerous opponent, maybe Ferret is a bit stronger.
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