Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:08:36 07/13/99
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On July 13, 1999 at 04:33:41, Harald Faber wrote:
>On July 13, 1999 at 00:23:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>Earlier tonite, Crafty was involved in a match with GM Loek van Wely on
>>ICC. 5 3 time control, and crafty was winning about its normal percentage
>>against him (about 80%, match was 9 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw at the point
>>where the following game was played). In this game, Crafty was
>>in book until move 23. As we passed move 20, I was counting pawns
>>and pieces and concluded white was probably lost. At move 23,
>>Crafty's first search said -4.00, and I thought aha, book learning
>>to the rescue as this is dead lost. But without spoiling anything,
>>this was the result. :)
>
>Here you see again that search depth and eval of king safety suffer.
>Counting material is not always the key for winning...
>The line looks forced until move #31 and instantly black blundered with
>31...gxh3. However, this position is hard to play with black...
>
I disagree about the 'eval' issue. We had over 200 folks observing this
'match'. Including 5 GM players. All thought white was totally lost. One
said "now if he only doesn't make a mistake..."
Btw, Crafty played against GMs for a long while... van Wely, followed by
Roman, followed by Piket with a few Shirov's thrown in to the mix. It's
current ICC rating is 3240...
>
>>[Event "ICC 5 3"]
>>[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
>>[Date "1999.07.13"]
>>[Round "-"]
>>[White "crafty"]
>>[Black "KingLoek"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[WhiteElo "3118"]
>>[BlackElo "2956"]
>>[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Poisoned pawn variation"]
>>[ECO "B97"]
>>[NIC "SI.08"]
>>[Time "00:00:49"]
>>[TimeControl "300+3"]
>>
>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6 8.
>>Qd2 Qxb2 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. f5 Nc6 11. fxe6 fxe6 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. e5 dxe5 14.
>>Bxf6 gxf6 15. Ne4 Be7 16. Be2 h5 17. Rb3 Qa4 18. Nxf6+ Bxf6 19. c4 Bh4+ 20.
>>g3 Be7 21. O-O h4 22. Bd3 Rg8 23. Qf2 Rg7 24. Bg6+ Rxg6 25. Qf7+ Kd8 26.
>>Rd1+ Bd7 27. Rxd7+ Kxd7 28. Rd3+ Kc7 29. Qxe7+ Kb6 30. Rb3+ Qxb3 31. axb3
>>hxg3 32. c5+ Kb5 33. Qb7+ Kxc5 34. Qxa8 gxh2+ 35. Kxh2 Rg4 36. Qxa6 Rb4 37.
>>Qa5+ Rb5 38. b4+ Kc4 39. Qc7 c5 40. bxc5 Rxc5 41. Qd6 e4 42. Qxe6+ Kd4 43.
>>Qf6+ Kd5 44. Kg3 Rc2 45. Qd8+ Ke5 46. Qh8+ Kd5 47. Qh5+ Kc4 48. Kf4
>>{Black resigns}
>>1-0
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