Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 12:02:56 05/26/02
Tiger Wins It’s First Game!
Crafty is leading the match 2-1.
The fourth game of the Frank J. Byrne Memorial Computer Chess Challenge pitting
the world's best freely available commercial computer chess program -- Chess
Tiger v14 by Christophe Theron against the world's best freely available
non-commercial computer chess program - Crafty v18.15 by Robert Hyatt, was won
by Tiger, playing it’s best game of the match so far.
The Polish opening was played evenly by both sides. It wasn’t until Tiger
started rolling his Q-side pawn majority that the game became unglued for
Crafty.
With this win, Tiger’s is within one game of catching Crafty. Crafty stunned
Tiger by winning the first two games of the match. The third game ended in a
draw.
Like the days of yore, it is the first program to win 10 games and the program
must have a margin of victory of 2 games. A winning score could be 10-8 or
21-19 it all depends on how the games go. Draws do not count - it just wins
that count.
The match is being held just outside of Philadelphia. Game 5 is underway.
For further background information on this match, please see this link.
http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?231517
The moves for game 4:
[Event "Frank J. Byrne Memorial Computer Chess Challenge"]
[Site "Philadelphia, PA"]
[Date "2002.05.26"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Crafty v18.15 "]
[Black "Chess Tiger v14"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. b4 e5 2. Bb2 Bxb4 3. Bxe5 Nf6 4. e3 O-O 5. Nf3 d5 6. Be2 c5 7. O-O Nc6
8. Bb2 Ba5 9. d3 Bc7 10. Nc3 a6 11. Ba3 Bd6 12. d4 c4 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14. a4
Bg4 15. h3 Bf5 16. Nh4 Be6 17. Nf3 b6 18. Qd2 Rab8 19. Rab1 Bf5 20. Nh4 Bd7
21. Nf3 Rb7 22. Rb2 Qa3 23. Rbb1 Bf5 24. Ne5 Nxe5 25. dxe5 Ne4 26. Nxe4
Bxe4 27. Rfc1 Rfb8 28. Ra1 Qc5 29. Bg4 Qc6 30. h4 h6 31. Ra2 b5 32. f3 c3
33. Qd4 Bh7 34. axb5 axb5 35. h5 Qc4 36. Ra6
{
[D] 1r4k1/1r3ppb/R6p/1p1pP2P/2qQ2B1/2p1PP2/2P3P1/2R3K1 b
34… b4! Starts the pawn roller that crafty will be unable to stop.
}
b4 37. Qxc4 dxc4 38. e4 b3 39.
e6 Kh8 40. Ra3 Bg8 41. exf7 Rxf7 42. Bf5 Rff8 43. Kh2 b2 44. Rb1 Ra8 45.
Rxc3 Rfb8 46. Re3 Ra1 47. Rxb2 Rxb2 48. e5 Rbb1 49. Kg3 Re1 50. Kf2 Rxe3
51. Kxe3 Bh7 52. Bxh7 Kxh7 53. Kd4 g6 54. g4 gxh5 55. gxh5 Rh1 56. Kxc4
Rxh5 57. Kd5 Rh2 58. c4 h5 59. c5 h4 60. c6 Rd2+ 61. Ke4 h3 62. c7 Rc2 63.
Kf5 Rxc7 64. Ke6 h2 65. Kd6 Rc4 66. Kd5 Rf4 67. e6 h1=Q 68. e7 Qxf3+ 69.
Ke5 Qe4+ 70. Kd6 Rf6+
0-1
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