Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:09:55 05/26/02
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On May 26, 2002 at 15:02:56, Mike Byrne wrote:
>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.
You forgot to mention how hard Tiger was sweating before the game started. ;-)
Christophe
> 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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