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Subject: Re: CSTal-2 vs Hiarcs 7.32 (Game 5)

Author: James Robertson

Date: 21:00:56 09/18/99

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On September 18, 1999 at 23:10:49, Mark Young wrote:

>On September 18, 1999 at 21:44:59, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>This is game 5 of CSTal-2 on a K6-3-450 vs Hiarcs 7.32 on a PII-333.  I'm not
>>really interested in this anymore so this will be the last one.  Final score of
>>CSTal-2 vs Crafty is 2-6 and CSTal-2 vs Hiarcs 7.32 is 0-5 for a total of
>>2-11.  I believe if more games were played CSTal might have a better showing but
>>maybe others with an interest in this can do it.  The 13 games do show an
>>insight into the style of play of CSTal-2.
>>
>>[Event "40/2"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "1999.09.18"]
>>[Round "5"]
>>[White "Chess Tal II(K6-2-350/256M)"]
>>[Black "Hiarcs 7.32(PII-333/128M)"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>
>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. e5 Nd5 7. Bd2 Nxc3 8.
>>bxc3 Be7 9. Nb5 O-O 10. Bd3 Nc6 11. Qh5 g6 12. Qe2 f6 13. exf6 Bxf6 14. h4 d5
>>15. h5 g5 16. Bxh7+ Kxh7 17. Qd3+ Kh8 18. Qg6 Ne5 19. Qh6+ Kg8 20. f4 gxf4 21.
>>Qxf4 Bd7 22. Nd4 Nc4 23. Qg3+ Kh8 24. Qg6 Bh4+ 25. g3 Rf6 26. Qg4 Nxd2 27. gxh4
>>Ne4 28. h6 Rxh6 29. Qf4 Qf6 30. Qxf6+ Rxf6 31. c4 e5 32. Ne2 Rf2 33. Ng3 Rxc2
>>34. Nxe4 dxe4 35. Rg1 Rf8 36. Rd1 Ba4 37. Rf1 Rf4 38. Rxf4 exf4 39. Rd4 Rc1+
>>40. Kd2 Rd1+ 41. Kc3 Rxd4 42. Kxd4 Bc2 43. Kc3 f3 44. Kd2 f2 45. Ke2 e3 46. h5
>>Kh7 47. c5 Kh6 48. a3 Kg5 49. a4 Kf4 50. c6 Ke4 51. cxb7 Bd3+ 52. Kd1 f1=Q+ 0-1
>>
>>Jim Walker
>
>I have to agree to a point, I think any results are interesting, but I see no
>need in posting such a mismatch. Chess System Tal has its place in the
>commercail market, but it is not in the same league as the top commercail
>programs. Your 0-5 & 2-6 loss with CST is typical for this program when playing
>any of the top programs in the chess market, free or otherwise.

I think you are close to the truth; my program has beaten CST accounts on FICS a
lot more easily than Crafty accounts on similar hardware, and Will Singleton has
the same story....

James



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