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Subject: Re: I destroyed Crafty in 20 moves!

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 14:39:03 09/02/99

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On September 01, 1999 at 15:32:26, Côme wrote:

>
>I played a game of 15mn+3s with Crafty 16.16 on my AMD k6II 350 today,and I
>destroyed it in 23 moves!!
>Here is the game:
>
>[Event "?"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1/8/99"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "Côme Alexandre"]
>[Black "Crafty 16.16"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Bc5 6. e5 d5 7. exf6 dxc4 8.
>Re1+ Be6 9. Ng5 Qd5 10. Nc3 Qf5 11. Nce4 Bb6? 12. Ng3 Qg6 13. Nxe6 fxe6 14.
>Rxe6+ Kd7 15. Nh5 gxf6?? 16. Rxf6 Qe4 17. Ng3 Qe8 18. Qg4+ Kd8 19.Rxc6 Qxc6 20.
>Bg5+ Ke8 21. Re1+ Kf8 22. Qf4+ Kg8 23. Nf5
>1-0
>
>I think 11...Bb6? is a blunder,the theoretical move 11...0-0-0 is better,but I
>don't think 11... Bb6? is the decisive error.

I don't believe that 11... Bb6 is that bad.

>15...gxf6?? is the lost move,15...Rhe8 is better, the following should be:
>16.Rxe8 Rxe8 17.Nxg7
>Rf8 unclear position.
>Could somebody explain to me :
>How Crafty can play so horrible move like 15...gxf6?? ?

I've managed to make Crafty16.15 play the same moves at the same timecontrol,
but it refuses to play 15... gxf6. So it must be the setup.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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