Author: Slater Wold
Date: 16:18:42 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 found the pgn. However, it's linked to a gambitsoft.net page. Which of course is not up. Look familiar? CM5000.1.0.2 CRAFTY 11.15 REBEL 8 DIEP 1.57.17 MACCHESS 3.0 Total CM5000.1.0.2 X 0 0,5 1 1 2,5 CRAFTY 11.15 1 X 0,5 0 1 2,5 REBEL 8 0,5 0,5 X 1 0,5 2,5 DIEP 1.57.17 0 1 0 X 1 2 MACCHESS 3.0 0 0 0,5 0 X 0,5 Total 2,5 2,5 2,5 2 0,5
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