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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