Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 13:36:47 02/08/98
There is currently a round-robin tournament being conducted between
Chessmaster 5500, Crafty 4.81, Fritz 5, Rebel 9 and HIARCS 6
on the Internet at a time control of 8 hours on a Pentium P5/133
(or equivalent). You can review the games in progress at the
Gambitsoft site - http://www.gambitsoft.com/kup.htm.
Since the HIARCS-CRAFTY game just left book, and since the commentary I
prepared used several useful Macintosh chess utilities that other Mac
users might like to know about, I'm posting the game and commentary
here. (Sources for Mac software at the end)
[Event "Komputer Korrespondence Kup 2"]
[Site "Internet"]
[Date "1998.02.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "HIARCS 6.0 Mac (Fowell)"]
[Black "Crafty 4.81 (Oei)"]
[Result "*"]
1.d4 c5 2.e4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bc4 a6 7.O-O *
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This is HIARCS first non-book move!
Unlike many KKKKup moves, this is one where the long time control
actually changed a program's choice of move!
After 805 seconds, HIARCS finds 0-0, which is "book" in this position,
based on the Essentia Mac database.
HIARCS thoughts (thanks to the Mac utility
Text Capture FKEY that allows me to capture HIARCS PVs)
5>15 1 c1-f4 b7-b5 c4-b3 f8-b4 f4-d6 b4xc3+ b2xc3 = 0
6>23 9 c1-g5 f7-f6 g5-f4 b7-b5 c4-b3 f8-b4 f4-d6 b4xc3+ b2xc3 = -7
7>25 24 c1-f4 b7-b5 c4-d3 f8-b4 O-O b4xc3 b2xc3 = -7
8>27 70 c1-f4 b7-b5 c4-b3 g8-f6 e4-e5 b5-b4 c3-e2 f6-e4 = -5
9>29 236 c1-f4 f8-b4 O-O b4xc3 b2xc3 d8-a5 d1-b3 b7-b5 c4-d3 = -3
9>29 805 O-O b7-b5 c4-d3 f8-c5 c1-f4 d7-d6 e4-e5 = 5
10>30 1689 O-O f8-b4 d1-c2 g8-e7 c1-e3 d7-d6 a1-c1 b7-b5 c4-d3 = 3
11 7.O-O b5 Bb3 b4 Na4 Nf6 e5 Ng4 Bf4 f6 exf6 gxf6 = 0
database results (thanks to Essentia and ExaChess)
Moves to search position:
6 a6 (128 games)
6 e6 ( 24 games)
6 Nc6 ( 14 games)
Moves from search position:
7 0-0 (137 games (82%), Score: 54%: +62 =25 -50)
7 Bf4 ( 9 games ( 5%), Score: 50%: +4 =1 -4)
7 Qe2 ( 8 games ( 4%), Score: 44%: +3 =1 -4)
7 a4 ( 7 games ( 4%), Score: 43%: +3 =0 -4)
7 a3 ( 5 games ( 3%), Score: 40%: +2 =0 -3)
For more info on the Mac software used:
HIARCS Mac - http://www.acc-ltd.demon.co.uk/
http://www.gambitsoft.com/chess/games/hiar6me.htm
http://www.imgmagazine.com/issues/vol5_issue6/p10.html
ExaChess - http://www.exachess.com/
Essentia - http://http://www.chess4less.com/essemac.htm
Text_Capture_FKEY2.4 - http://users.aol.com/jwwalker/
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