Author: James Robertson
Date: 19:27:11 10/14/98
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On October 14, 1998 at 11:14:25, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>I had Crafty 15_18 play a blitz match (4 min + 2 sec inc) against the 1.21
>Little Goliath update. In game 13 (ominous number?) of their match Crafty
>blundered away a clear win. The Crafty twilight zone started on move 75 and
>ended on move 77 after which the previously won position was a clear loss.
>Little Goliath garnered an undeserved win and I was left completely in the dark:
> hash-collision, tablebase problems??? Perhaps Bob Hyatt can help. Here's the
>game. (Endscore 15-5 for Crafty)
>PS: AMD-K6-II/300 128MB, 10 megs of hash for Crafty.
>
>Regards,
>Djordje
>
>
>[Event "Computer chess game"]
>[Site "HAL"]
>[Date "1998.10.13"]
>[Round "13"]
>[White "wcrafty-15_18"]
>[Black "lgol1_21.exe"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[TimeControl "240+2"]
>
>1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 Ngf6 6. Bd3 e6 7. Qe2 Bd6
>8. Bd2 Qb6 9. O-O-O Qxd4 10. Be3 Qa4 11. Kb1 h6 12. Bc4 Bc7 13. Bb3 Qa6 14.
>Qxa6 bxa6 15. N5h3 Bb6 16. Bf4 g5 17. Be3 Bxe3 18. fxe3 Ng4 19. Re1 Nde5
>20. Nf3 c5 21. Ba4+ Ke7 22. e4 Rb8 23. Re2 Nxf3 24. gxf3 Ne5 25. f4 gxf4
>26. Nxf4 Rd8 27. c3 Bd7 28. Bc2 Bc6 29. b3 c4 30. Ka1 Nd3 31. Rf1 Nxf4 32.
>Rxf4 cxb3 33. axb3 e5 34. Rf5 f6 35. Rg2 Rg8 36. Rgf2 Rg1+ 37. Kb2 Rg6 38.
>h4 Rf8 39. Rh5 a5 40. c4 Ke6 41. Kc3 Rd8 42. Rhf5 Rg3+ 43. Kb2 Rf8 44. Rh5
>Rg4 45. Rxh6 Bxe4 46. h5 Bxc2 47. Rxc2 Rh4 48. Rc1 Rh2+ 49. Rc2 Rh3 50. Rc3
>Rh4 51. Rc1 Rh2+ 52. Rc2 Rh3 53. Rc3 Rh1 54. Rd3 e4 55. Rd4 Rh4 56. Rh7
>Rh2+ 57. Ka3 f5 58. Rd5 f4 59. Rxa5 Rf6 60. Rc7 Rf8 61. Rc6+ Kd7 62. Rh6
>Ra8 63. Rd5+ Kc7 64. Rf5 Rd8 65. Rxf4 e3 66. Ra6 Rdd2 67. Rxa7+ Kd6 68. Rh7
>e2 69. Re4 Rd1 70. Rhe7 e1=Q 71. Rxe1 Rxe1 72. Rxe1 Rxh5 73. b4 Rh8 74.
>Rd1+ Kc6 75. b5+ Kc5 76. Rd5+ Kxc4 77. b6 Ra8+ 78. Ra5 Rxa5+ 79. Kb2 Rb5+
>80. Kc2 Rxb6 81. Kd2 Re6 82. Kc2 Re2+ 83. Kd1 Kd3 84. Kc1 Kc3 85. Kb1 Re1+
>86. Ka2
>{White resigns} 0-1
I had Crafty play the position (before 75. Rd5+??) on my machine, and as
everyone would expect, it likes Rc1 from ply 1 all the way to play 14, when I
stopped.
James
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