Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:26:15 07/24/02
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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... Chess Tiger after a good, long, think: [D]r1bq1rk1/1p2bppp/p3p3/n3P3/4N3/1P1P1N2/PB4PP/R3QR1K w - - ce 288; acd 18; acs 4710; pv Nf6+ gxf6 exf6 Bxf6 Qg3+ Kh8 Ne5 Bd7 Rf3 Bxe5 Bxe5+ f6 Raf1 Nc6 Rxf6 Nxe5 Rxf8+;|!4710
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