Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 14:00:12 05/27/02
Crafty Beats Tiger!
Match is tied 3-3.
The eighth 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, ended in
dramatic fashion as Crafty beat Tiger. It is Crafty’s first win since the
second game of the match.
Summary:
Tiger v14.0 CP 0 0 .5 1 1 1 .5 0 = 4
Crafty 18.15 1 1 .5 0 0 0 .5 1 = 4
The opening was the sharp Queen Gambit’s Declined - Tartakower
(Makagonov-Bondarevsky) variation.
Crafty stunned Tiger by winning the first two games of the match. Since then,
Tiger roared back to win games 4, 5, and 6. With this win by Crafty, the match
is now tied. Games 3 and 7 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 9 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 8:
[Event "Frank J. Byrne Memorial Computer Chess Challenge"]
[Site "Philadelphia, PA"]
[Date "2002.05.27"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Crafty v18.15"]
[Black "Chess Tiger 14.0"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 h6 7.Bh4 b6 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.O-O
Nbd7 10.Bg3 dxc4 11.Bxc4 a6 12.a4 Bd6 13.Ne5 Qe7 14.Qe2 c5 15.Rac1 Rfd8 16.f4
cxd4 17.exd4 Bb8
{
[D] rb1r2k1/1b1nqpp1/pp2pn1p/4N3/P1BP1P2/2N3B1/1P2Q1PP/2R2RK1 w - -
18.f5! Turned this game in Crafty’s favor. Followed by 19. fe6 , Crafty was
able to maintained the pressure in the subsequent moves.
}
18.f5 Nf8 19.fxe6 fxe6 20.Rcd1 Rc8 21.b3 Bd6 22.Bh4 g5 23.Bg3 Bc7 24.Rf2 b5
25.axb5 axb5 26.Nxb5 Bxe5 27.Qxe5 Ne4
{
[D} r1r2nk1/1b2q3/4p2p/1N2Q1p1/2BPn3/1P4B1/5RPP/3R2K1 w - -
28. Rxf8! Seals the winning advantage.
}
28.Rxf8+ Rxf8 29.Bxe6+ Rf7 30.Rf1 Rf8 31.Qf5 Kh8 32.Be5+ Rf6 33.Nc3 Kg7 34.Nxe4
Bxe4 35.Qxe4 Qxe6 36.d5 Qb6+ 37.Bd4 Qd6 38.b4 Kg8 39.Rxf6 Rxf6 40.Bxf6 Qxf6
41.Qe6+ Qxe6 42.dxe6
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