Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:01:56 02/08/98
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On February 08, 1998 at 16:36:47, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote: >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. I hate to throw stones here, but this *really* needs checking into. IE crafty is a clean 2.5X faster last time I compared a P5/133 to a P6/200. Are the Crafty operators using the correct time here? I'd swear that I have seen times that appear to be out of line with this, unless I overlooked something??? > > >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 * > >----------------------------------------- >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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