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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 14.9a Beta 2 vs Karpov 2294 by Excalibur, Great game.

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 19:05:38 06/04/02

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On June 04, 2002 at 21:53:32, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On June 04, 2002 at 21:14:17, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2002 at 20:43:31, Rafael Vasquez wrote:
>>
>>>On June 04, 2002 at 19:53:10, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>I always carry my Prism with me and decided to visit a chess Club and saw a
>>>>beautiful simulated wood chess computer, and I asked the ownwer if he doesn't
>>>>mind to pit it against my palm and he first laughed at me, and I told him
>>>>believe it or not I think they are almost equal in strength. Immediately he
>>>>replied to me "no I can't believe that they can make them so small and as strong
>>>>as my Karpov, which I paid more than $200.00 several years ago". I was not in
>>>>the mood to bet against him, knowing what I have, and I already owned a Novag
>>>>Turquouise H8 RISC Style processor 26.6 Mhz which I have matched several times
>>>>against CT 14.9a.  I knew that I had equal chances against his Karpov, but since
>>>>it cost much more than my Novag Turquoise i wasn't 100% sure that it was the
>>>>exact program. He told me that he only have 2 hours to spare at the club, so we
>>>>decided to match them at G/45.
>>>
>>>
>>>[Event "Testing CT 14.9a Beta 2"]
>>>[Site "Chess Club"]
>>>[Date "2002.06.03"]
>>>[Round "1"]
>>>[White "Chess Tiger 14.9a Beta2 Prism 54 Mhz"]
>>>[Black "Karpov 2294 By Excalibur"]
>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>
>>>
>>>1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. Bc4 Be7 7. c3 O-O 8.
>>>Nf3 Bf5 9. O-O Bd6 10. Bd3 Bxd3 11. Qxd3 Nd7 12. Be3 Re8 13. d5 Nc5 14. Bxc5
>>>Bxc5 15. Rad1 Qb6 16. b4 Bd6 17. dxc6 Rad8 18. Qc4 bxc6 19. a4 c5 20. b5 a6 21.
>>>Rd5 Qb7 22. Rfd1 axb5 23. Qxb5 Qxb5 24. axb5 Bc7 25. Kf1 c4 26. Rxd8 Rxd8 27.
>>>Rxd8+ Bxd8 28. Nd2 Ba5 29. Nxc4 Bxc3 30. b6 Bd4 31. b7 Ba7 32. Na5 Bb8 33. Nc6
>>>Bc7 34. Ke2 g6 35. h3 Kf8 36. Ke3 h5 37. Kd4 Bd6 38. Kd5 Bc7 39. b8R+ Bxb8 40.
>>>Nxb8 Ke7 41. g4 hxg4 42. hxg4 Kf8 43. Kd6 Kg7 44. Ke7 f5 45. g5 Kg8 46. f4 Kg7
>>>47. Nd7 Kg8 48. Ne5 Kg7 49. Nxf7 Kg8 50. Nh6+ Kg7 51. Ke8 Kh8 52. Kf7 Kh7 53.
>>>Nxf5 gxf5 54. g6+ Kh6 55. g7 Kh5 56. g8Q Kh4 57. Kf6 Kh3 58. Qg1 Kh4 59. Ke6 >Kh3 60. Kxf5 Kh4 61. Qh2#
>>>1-0
>>
>>Its very strange that did not mate with 61. Qg5#
>>
>>Yes, but I thought it was going to mate with 61. Qg4#
>>
>>PS: I always thought that either Novag Turquoise or Karpov 2294 were over rated
>>by USCF, in all my previous matches CT 14.9a vs Novag Turquoise I estimated a
>>USCF rating of no more than 2135 at the most.
>>
>>Jorge
>
>definately - it got a lucky streak - that's why they were so "happy" to be able
>to market it 2294 - 2135 is about right - your palm would win more games than
>lose

Honestly they are about even in strength, I only matched them in about 16 games
total, and so far at different time controls, but mainly G/30, G45, and G/60
Novag Turquoise is leading by 1.5 games which is the reason why i said that they
are about even in strength.

PS: I did noticed that as I increased the time control over G/45 Novag seems to
plays better than CT 14.9 in my Prism, but at game G/45 or below CT 14.9a plays
stronger.

Jorge.



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