Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:13:56 07/23/02
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On July 23, 2002 at 19:18:42, Slater Wold wrote: >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 yes.. that was the event I believe....
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