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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:15:00 01/31/00

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On January 31, 2000 at 01:22:38, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>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...)

Crafty came out of book negative, and didn't get happy until the queens were
traded on f6 IIRC...

same thing in round 1, in a gambit by white, crafty (black) was unhappy (-.6 or
so) until it took over the g file...



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