Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 02:14:30 03/11/00
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On March 10, 2000 at 20:49:05, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>A couple of days ago I started running Chess Tiger 12.0e on FICS and ICC
>(Lambkin / MagusX). I played more games on FICS and managed very easily to have
>Tiger share spot #2 in blitz. Of course, it will be almost impossible to place
>that high on ICC as the HW used on ICC is really very impressive and I am using
>a mere PII-400. I've been impressed by the quality of Tiger's play to that
>extent that I feel the need to say this out loud. Tiger is absolutely the best
>program that I have operated on FICS and ICC, and I have tried many of them. It
>(he?) has this uncanny positional "feeling" and one may easily be misled into
>thinking that it is a strong GM playing, not merely a piece of software. Even
>though it (he?) was not intended to be a top blitzer it is very, very strong at
>blitz too.
>
>To show you what I meant by "positional feeling", please go through this game in
>which Tiger faced a very strong Crafty on a fast PIII computer. Tiger played for
>the weak white squares just as it should be played in the Marshall, and I loved
>watching it goad Crafty into a tactical disaster:
I'm not sure this is what happened. Tiger was losing until move 40, when Crafty
played Kh2, which I think is the losing move. My modified Crafty immediately
shows a score of 0.00 when searching this move. I believe 40. g4 can save the
win for Crafty.
>[Event "ICC 3 0"]
>[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
>[Date "2000.03.10"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "KillerGrob"]
>[Black "MagusX"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ICCResult "White checkmated"]
>[WhiteElo "2744"]
>[BlackElo "2724"]
>[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Marshall, main line, 14...Qh3"]
>[ECO "C89"]
>[NIC "RL.17"]
>[Time "19:22:10"]
>[TimeControl "180+0"]
>
>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. Be3 Bg4 16. Qd3 Rae8 17. Nd2 Re6 18. a4 bxa4 19. Rxa4 f5 20. Qf1 Qh5
>21. f4 Kh8 22. Bxd5 cxd5 23. Rxa6 Qe8 24. Bf2 Rff6 25. Ra5 Be2 26. Qh3 Bg4
>27. Rxe6 Rxe6 28. Qg2 Re2 29. Nf1 Bc7 30. Rc5 Rxb2 31. Rxc7 Rb1 32. h3 Be2
>33. Qxd5 Bxf1 34. Kh2 Rb2 35. Qe5 Qg8 36. Qe1 Bd3 37. Qe3 Be4 38. Kg1 Qd8
>39. Rc5 Kg8 40. Kh2
As I said above, I think this was a total blunder. On a fast machine, I think
Crafty should find that this is a draw quite quickly - as it does on my
relatively slow machine (PII-300).
12-> 2:55 2.42 40. g4 Rb1+ 41. Kh2 Rh1+ 42. Kg3 Rd1
43. Qe2 Rd3+ 44. Kh2 Qb8 45. Bg3 Qb1
46. Be1 Qb8 47. Re5 Qf8 48. gxf5 Bxf5
> Qa8 41. g4 Qa2 42. Rc8+ Kf7 43. Kg3 Re2 44. Rc7+ Ke8 45.
>Qc1 Rxf2 46. Qe3 Re2 47. Qxe2 Qxe2 48. Kh4 fxg4 49. Rxg7 gxh3 50. Kxh3 Qf3+
>51. Kh4 Qf2+ 52. Kh5 Qh2+ 53. Kg4 Qg2+ 54. Kh4 Qxg7 55. f5 Bf3 56. Kh3 Qg2+
>57. Kh4 Qg4# {White checkmated} 0-1
>
>
>*** Djordje
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