Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 16:18:15 07/23/02
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On July 23, 2002 at 18:32:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I think this is the position: [D]r1b1r1k1/1q3ppp/ppn5/2bNp3/P4B2/5Q1P/BP3PP1/R2R2K1 w - - 0 19 The gamescore: [Event "1997 Korrespondence Kup"] [Site "?"] [Date "1997"] [Round "?"] [White "Crafty"] [Black "CM5000"] [Result "1-0"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. a4 Nc6 8. Qe2 Qc7 9. Nc3 Bd6 10. Rd1 O-O 11. h3 Re8 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. e4 Nd7 14. Ba2 b6 15. e5 Ndxe5 16. Bf4 Nxf3+ 17. Qxf3 e5 18. Nd5 Qb7 19. Nf6+ gxf6 20. Bh6 Bf8 21. Bd5 Bd7 22. Ra3 Bxh6 23. Qxf6 Re6 24. Bxe6 Bxe6 25. Rg3+ Kf8 26. Qxh6+ Ke7 27. Qh4+ Kf8 28. Qxh7 Nd4 29. Qh8+ Ke7 30. Qxe5 Nf5 31. Rc3 Rc8 1-0 Pierre
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