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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