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Subject: Crafty loses endgame to human?

Author: Michael Fuhrmann

Date: 10:17:53 04/02/00


Here's a game Crafty (playing as Scrappy) lost last night on ICC to a human. Can
anyone say where Crafty went wrong?

I thought the game looked drawish when the pieces were cleared off the board by
move 23, and each side was left 6 pawns.

[Event "ICC 5 3"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2000.04.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "scrappy"]
[Black "Mearduo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "3083"]
[BlackElo "2952"]
[Opening "Bogo-Indian defense, Gr\\\"unfeld variation"]
[ECO "E11"]
[NIC "QI.01"]
[Time "23:29:52"]
[TimeControl "300+3"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Nbd2 d5 5. Qa4+ Nc6 6. Ne5 Bd7 7. Nxd7
Qxd7 8. e3 Ne4 9. Qc2 O-O-O 10. f3 Nxd2 11. Bxd2 Bxd2+ 12. Qxd2 e5 13. dxe5
Nxe5 14. cxd5 Qxd5 15. Qxd5 Rxd5 16. Rd1 Rhd8 17. Rxd5 Rxd5 18. h3 Nd3+ 19.
Bxd3 Rxd3 20. Ke2 Rd6 21. g4 Kd7 22. Rd1 Rxd1 23. Kxd1 c5 24. Kd2 b5 25. Kc3
Kd6 26. b3 g5 27. Kd3 Ke5 28. a3 a6 29. Kd2 Kd5 30. Kc2 c4 31. b4 Ke5 32.
Kc3 Kf6 33. a4 Kg6 34. axb5 axb5 35. Kd2 h5 36. Kc3 f5 37. gxf5+ Kxf5 38.
Kd4 Ke6 39. Ke4 Kf6 40. Kd4 Kf5 41. e4+ Kf4 42. e5 c3 43. Kxc3 Kxe5 44. Kd3
Kf4 45. Ke2 Kg3 46. Ke3 Kxh3 47. Kd2 Kg3 48. Ke3 h4 49. Ke4 h3 50. Kd3 Kxf3
51. Kd2 h2 52. Kd3 h1=Q 53. Kd4 Qc1 54. Kd5 g4 55. Kd6 g3 56. Ke7 g2 57. Kd6
g1=Q 58. Kd7 Qg6 59. Kd8 Qh7 60. Ke8 Qc8# {White checkmated} 0-1




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