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Subject: Re: Crafty leads ICC tourney w/ perfect score after 4 rounds

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 22:22:38 01/30/00

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On January 30, 2000 at 23:52:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 30, 2000 at 22:17:56, David Eppstein wrote:
>
>>I noticed that three out of four of crafty's wins were ground-out endgames. I
>>guess the new potential-passed-pawn evaluation term helped a lot?
>
>
>I think it has helped.  IE I didn't feel like I was badly outsearching
>_anybody_ so far...  I simply saw lots of significant positional disagreement.
>
>Two games come to mind.  round 3 vs Nimzo...  crafty played an 'iffy' variant
>in the bishops opening (as black) but Nimzo allowed a queen trade.  That turned
>it into at least a draw, but the resulting king and pawn ending was nicely
>played.  I didn't see all of this game so I am not sure exactly what happened.

I looked at the game, and it seemed as if Crafty had a nice advantage the whole
time.  (I think I'm remembering the correct game...)



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