🚀 go-pugleaf

Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> 
> "PMG" wrote:
> 
> > But as far as annotating Nd4 with "!" goes, that must have been the
> > original poster,
> 
> It was.
> 
> >                  I never actually looked at the game.  Judging from
> > Crafty's score of the searches, I'd say that Black did a great job of
> > controlling things.
> 
> No. White did a great job of destroying his own position.
> If you get Crafty to look at the position after ...Nd4?
> (but before Nxe5?) then you'll see that White has a fine
> position. (Crafty 16.12 on my machine reckons about +0.6
> pawns.) After Nxe5?, Crafty reckons *Black* is about 0.7
> pawns up.
> 
> --
> Gareth McCaughan  Gareth.McCaughan@pobox.com
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I thought I'd run the positions 

r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/2BnP3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R w KQkq - 0 4

and

r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4N3/2BnP3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq - 0 4

past Little Goliath because I think it searches deeper on my slow
computer, but it doesn't put scores in it's log files, and with Phalanx,
it was still in it's book.  Just from memory, I think LilGoliath would
have KtxKt, not KtxP.  But Q-Kt4 is still in 2 opening books, so I'm not
really sure if White dropped the ball there.  It's probably a matter of
who looses their nerve first. this game is way too short.

Pete

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