Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:07:11 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... After 12 minutes on a 950 MHz Athlon, Chess Tiger 14 wants to move the Bishop to h6: [D]r1b1r1k1/1q3ppp/ppn5/2bNp3/P4B2/5Q1P/BP3PP1/R2R2K1 w - - ce 10; acd 15; acs 720; pv Bh6 Re6 Be3 Rb8 Bxc5 bxc5 Nc3 Re7 Rd6 e4 Qg3 Rc7 Rb1 Bf5 Nd5;|Bf4h6 Approximately a draw score.
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