Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:32:27 07/23/02
A few years ago, Komputer Korner had a "correspondence kup" match with Crafty, chessmaster and some other programs, playing a correspondence tournament. In that match, Crafty found a wild sacrifice to play against Chessmaster, I think it was Nf6. After searching for 24 hours or whatever the time limit was, Crafty saw a draw score. And it saw a draw score for the next couple of moves. Right after Crafty played that move, Hsu sent me an email saying "brilliant move". I told him Crafty only saw a draw. He said "let it keep searching... DB Jr saw +2.5 very quickly." Sure enough, a few moves later Crafty realized it was not just drawing, it was winning easily. I will try to find the game. If anybody has it, perhaps _that_ position will be a good one to see how long it takes today's programs to find the move and find it is winning, compared to DB1 back in 1996... I will see what I can find... I think the event was called "the komputer kup korrespondence tournament" or something similar...
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