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Subject: Re: CST-2 vs Crafty 16.15 @ 40/2hrs

Author: brain

Date: 10:30:44 09/04/99

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I played through the games. They are excellent! Does CST-2 do annotation? It
would be good if we can have its annotation on the 2 games.


On September 03, 1999 at 11:58:25, James T. Walker wrote:

>I have started a match between CST-2(K6-3-450/256Meg Ram) and Crafty
>16.15(PII-333/128 Meg Ram).  Here are the first two games.  Yes sometimes if you
>are lucky you can force CST-2 to play black (It's not easy with my setup).  In
>my opinion this is not the strongest version of Crafty but I don't have enough
>data to prove this.  In any case it should provide an interesting match even
>though Crafty is running on slower hardware.  The match is being run using the
>auto232 of Remi Coulom.  This is the WCrafty1615.exe from Bob's site.  In the
>second game a problem developed where CSTal-2 stopped moving around move 33.
>This happened when I was away and I had to restart the programs and finish the
>game manually.  In the same game at move 35 CSTal-2 expected Crafty to recapture
>the rook with the Queen and had a large negative score (-9 something).  Crafty
>captured with the pawn and CSTal-2 score went down to about the same as Crafty
>(About 2.3 favor Crafty).  Did Crafty miss something here?
>
>[Event "40/120"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1999.09.02"]
>[Round "1"]
>[White "Crafty 16.15"]
>[Black "Chess Tal II"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Ne2 d5 6. a3 Be7 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Qc2
>Nd7 9. e4 Nxc3 10. Nxc3 c5 11. d5 Nb6 12. dxe6 Bxe6 13. Be2 Qb8 14. O-O Bf6 15.
>Be3 Bd4 16. Bxd4 cxd4 17. Nb5 Rc8 18. Qb1 Rd8 19. Rc1 Qe5 20. a4 a6 21. Nc7
>Rac8 22. Nxe6 Rxc1+ 23. Qxc1 fxe6 24. Bd3 Rc8 25. Qe1 Nd7 26. Rd1 Nc5 27. Bc2
>d3 28. Bxd3 Nxd3 29. Rxd3 Qxb2 30. a5 Qb4 31. Rd1 Qxe1+ 32. Rxe1 Rc5 33. Ra1
>Kf7 34. f4 e5 35. g3 exf4 36. gxf4 g5 37. f5 Kf6 38. Ra4 Ke5 39. Kg2 h5 40. h3
>Rc2+ 41. Kg3 Rb2 42. Rc4 Rb5 43. Rc7 Kxe4 44. f6 Rb3+ 45. Kg2 Rb2+ 46. Kg1 Rb1+
>47. Kg2 Rb2+ 48. Kg1 Rb1+ 49. Kg2 Rb2+ 1/2-1/2
>
>[Event "40/2hrs"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1999.09.03"]
>[Round "2"]
>[White "Chess Tal II"]
>[Black "Crafty 16.15"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O f6 6. d4 Bg4 7. c3 Bd6 8. Be3
>Ne7 9. Nbd2 Qd7 10. dxe5 fxe5 11. h3 Be6 12. c4 Ng6 13. Ng5 Bg8 14. Qe2 O-O-O
>15. Rfd1 Kb8 16. c5 Be7 17. Nb3 Qc8 18. Qh5 Rxd1+ 19. Rxd1 Qf8 20. Nf3 Bxb3 21.
>axb3 Bxc5 22. Nxe5 Nxe5 23. Qxe5 Bxe3 24. fxe3 Qf7 25. Rf1 Qxb3 26. Qxg7 Qxe3+
>27. Kh2 Rc8 28. Qxh7 Qe2 29. Qf7 Qxb2 30. Rf5 Qe2 31. e5 a5 32. e6 b5 33. Qd7
>Kb7 34. e7 Rg8 35. Rxb5+ cxb5 36. Qd5+ Ka7 37. Qxg8 Qxe7 38. Qd5 Kb6 39. Qd4+
>c5 40. Qa1 b4 41. Qd1 c4 42. g3 Qf6 43. h4 b3 44. Qg1+ Kb5 45. Qe1 b2 46. Qe8+
>Kb4 47. Qb8+ Ka3 48. Qb5 Qf2+ 49. Kh3 Qf1+ 50. Kg4 Qe1 51. Qc5+ Qb4 52. Qe3+
>c3+ 53. Kh3 b1=Q 54. Qf3 Q4e4 55. Qf8+ Ka4 56. Qf4 Qxf4 57. gxf4 Qf5+ 58. Kg3
>c2 59. Kf3 c1=Q 60. Kg3 Qg1+ 61. Kf3 Qd3+ 0-1



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