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Subject: Re: CSTal-2 vs Crafty 16.15 (CST-2 wins!)

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:13:28 09/05/99

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On September 05, 1999 at 11:17:54, David Beauregard wrote:

>On September 05, 1999 at 09:03:38, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>This is game #4.  CSTal-2 is palying on a K6-3-450/256 Meg & Crafty is on a
>>Pentuim II-333/128 Meg.  This type game is the reason some people including
>>myself like CST-2.  Crafty's score was 0.00 expecting Re2 when the bishop hit
>>g3.
>>
>>
>>
>>[Event "40/2"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "1999.09.05"]
>>[Round "4"]
>>[White "Crafty 16.15"]
>>[Black "Chess Tal II"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>
>>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3
>>d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d4 Bd6 13. Re1 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15.
>>Qd3 Bf5 16. Qf1 Rae8 17. Bd2 Rxe1 18. Bxe1 Qh5 19. Nd2 Re8 20. a4 Bh3 21. Qd3
>>Bb8 22. Ne4 Bg4 23. Bd2 Be2 24. Qb1 f6 25. Nc5 Bf3 26. axb5 Bxg3 27. fxg3 Re2
>>28. h4 Rg2+ 29. Kf1 Rxg3 30. Bxd5+ Bxd5 31. Qd3 Rxd3 32. Nxd3 Qf3+ 33. Ke1 Bc4
>>34. Rxa6 Bxd3 35. Ra8+ Kf7 36. Ra7+ Ke6 37. Re7+ Kxe7 38. bxc6 Qe2+ 0-1
>>
>>Jim Walker
>
>Jim..i like tal too and I am the operator of talmoves on ICC.  But to be fair
>you should be running the same hardware for both programs.  A 450 k3 is a lot
>faster than a PII 333.

Crafty is leading 2.5:1.5 with the slower hardware so it does not need equal
hardware.

I think that it is fair to give the weaker player the better hardware and the
results show that tal is the weaker player.

Uri



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