Author: Colin Frayn
Date: 09:19:50 02/08/00
For those who doubted when I said that I had decided to make my program slowly
learn openings by playing others instead of just writing a parser for existing
databases.... here is its latest victory against Crafty V17.4 using its
opponent's nasty (and usually victorious) knowledge of 1. f4 openings...
ColChess has learnt all its opening theory from copying Crafty and GNUChess as
it played them.
The game is a bit boring, and occasionally enters a loop before ColChess
realises that it's about to draw by repetition when ahead in material, so
changes plan. Time limit was 5 minutes (Blitz) played on a P3 450. ColChess
had 28 seconds left, Crafty had 11s. Oh, and it takes a stupid length of time
to mate using K+R vs. K, but it doesn't have endgame databases....
By the way - Crafty won the other 63 games in this match, if you were wondering
*grin*
[Bird's Opening: Almost Lasker Variation]
1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 g6 4. b3 Bg7 5. Bb2 O-O 6. Be2 c5 7. O-O Nc6 8.
Ne5 Nxe5 9. fxe5 Nd7 10. d4 e6 11. Nc3 Qg5 12. Bc1 Qe7 13. Ba3 b6 14. e4
Bb7 15. exd5 exd5 16. Bf3 Nxe5 17. dxe5 Qxe5 18. Nxd5 Bxd5 19. Bxd5 Rad8
20. c4 Qd4+ 21. Qxd4 Bxd4+ 22. Kh1 Bxa1 23. Rxa1 Rfe8 24. Rf1 Re2 25. Bxf7+
Kg7 26. Bd5 Rf8 27. Bf3 Rxa2 28. Bc1 a6 29. Rd1 Rf7 30. Bd2 b5 31. Bc3+ Kh6
32. Kg1 bxc4 33. bxc4 Rc2 34. Bd5 Rd7 35. Rd3 Re7 36. Bd2+ Kg7 37. h3 Ra2
38. Bc3+ Kh6 39. Bd2+ Kg7 40. Bc3+ Kh6 41. Bf3 a5 42. h4 Rc2 43. g4 Rc1+
44. Kf2 Rxc3 45. Rxc3 Ra7 46. Ra3 Kg7 47. g5 Kf7 48. h5 gxh5 49. Bxh5+ Ke7
50. Re3+ Kd6 51. Rd3+ Ke7 52. Re3+ Kd6 53. Rd3+ Ke7 54. Rd5 Rc7 55. Bf3 a4
56. Be4 Ke8 57. Rd3 Rg7 58. Bc6+ Kf7 59. Rd5 a3 60. Rxc5 a2 61. Bd5+ Ke7
62. Ra5 Rxg5 63. Rxa2 h5 64. Ke3 Kd6 65. Ra6+ Kc5 66. Rc6+ Kb4 67. Kd4 h4
68. Rb6+ Ka5 69. Rh6 Rg4+ 70. Ke5 Kb4 71. Be6 Rxc4 72. Bxc4 Kxc4 73. Rxh4+
Kd3 74. Re4 Kc3 75. Kd5 Kd3 76. Re7 Kc3 77. Rc7+ Kd3 78. Rc4 Ke3 79. Re4+
Kd3 80. Re7 Kc3 81. Re3+ Kb4 82. Kd4 Kb5 83. Re6 Kb4 84. Rb6+ Ka5 85. Kc5
Ka4 86. Rb7 Ka3 87. Kc4 Ka2 88. Kc3 Ka1 89. Kc2 Ka2 90. Ra7#
{White mates} 1-0
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