crafty-hiarcs

[Rodolfo Roque]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Rodolfo Roque at 20 March 2000 18:47:24:

Crafty and Hiarcs play by e-mail
Frank J García
Rodolfo Roque F.
The game that is considered in this note was played between Crafty 17.02, version Corbit, on platform Winboard, and Hiarcs 7.32 on platform Fritz 5.32. This game was played by e-mail from the 1999.12.01 up to the 2000.02.18, and it concluded with the victory of Crafty after 57 moves.
Crafty 17.02 Co. played in Acer/Extensa 710DX, with processor Intel, pentium II, 233 Mhz and 32 MB ram. Hiarcs made it in HP, processor Cyrux MMX, 300 Mhz and 64 MB ram. The programs played in time of tournament. Crafty used its own book of openings, while Hiarcs used that of Fritz4. The moves of Crafty were sent for Rodolfo Roque F (Cuba) and those of Hiarcs for Frank J Garcia, both players amateurs. A remarkable aspect of the game was that it had a positional character from the beginning, where the maneuvers, the prevention, and the indirect threats prevailed. There are not evident errors, and it is difficult to indicate the losing move.
For some fans it can be a surprise this victory of a non commercial program in front of one commercial. Although a single game doesn't have statistical meaning, the game was really interesting, and Crafty showed its capabilities. Crafty has the well earned reputation, among the experts of the game for computers, of being a very strong program . Recently it won the Tournament CCT-1 for Internet, before Shredder 3 and versions of Junior and Nimzo, among others. We suggest the fans that also examine the non commercial programs, some of which are really competitive. Whichever might be the temporary result of the competition among the programs, the chessworld of the computers advances this way today .
[Event "Computer-computer"]
[Site "e-mail"]
[Date "1999.12.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Crafty17.02"]
[Black "Hiarcs7.32"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 c5 7. Bc4
Bg7 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. Rc1 Na5 11. Bd3 Qc7 12. O-O b6 13. Qd2
Bd7 14. Bf4 e5 15. Bh6 Qd6 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. d5 f5 18. Qe3 fxe4 19. Bxe4
Nc4 20. Qd3 b5 21. Ng3 Rad8 22. Qe2 Kg8 23. a4 a6 24. axb5 axb5
25. Rfd1 Qf6 26. Bd3 Nd6 27. f3 Qf4 28. Ne4 Nxe4 29. Bxe4 Rf6 30. Qf2
Rc8 31. Ra1 Rd6 32. Ra7 Qh6 33. Rb7 Qf4 34. Ra1 Qh6 35. Qe1 Rf8
36. Raa7 Rf7 37. Ra8+ Kg7 38. Rbb8 Qf4 39. g3 Qh6 40. c4 Rff6 41. cxb5
c4 42. Rg8+ Kf7 43. Rgd8 Kg7 44. b6 Rxb6 45. Rxd7+ Rf7 46. Rxf7+ Kxf7
47. Rc8 Rb2 48. h4 Qd2 49. Qxd2 Rxd2 50. Rxc4 Kf8 51. Rc7 h6 52. Rc6
g5 53. Rxh6 gxh4 54. gxh4 Rd1+ 55. Kf2 Rd2+ 56. Ke3 Rb2 57. Re6 1-0

[Alexander]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Alexander at 22 March 2000 07:01:21:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: crafty-hiarcs geschrieben von: / posted by: Rodolfo Roque at 20 March 2000 18:47:24:

Crafty and Hiarcs play by e-mail
Frank J García
Rodolfo Roque F.
The game that is considered in this note was played between Crafty 17.02, version Corbit, on platform Winboard, and Hiarcs 7.32 on platform Fritz 5.32. This game was played by e-mail from the 1999.12.01 up to the 2000.02.18, and it concluded with the victory of Crafty after 57 moves.
Crafty 17.02 Co. played in Acer/Extensa 710DX, with processor Intel, pentium II, 233 Mhz and 32 MB ram. Hiarcs made it in HP, processor Cyrux MMX, 300 Mhz and 64 MB ram. The programs played in time of tournament. Crafty used its own book of openings, while Hiarcs used that of Fritz4. The moves of Crafty were sent for Rodolfo Roque F (Cuba) and those of Hiarcs for Frank J Garcia, both players amateurs. A remarkable aspect of the game was that it had a positional character from the beginning, where the maneuvers, the prevention, and the indirect threats prevailed. There are not evident errors, and it is difficult to indicate the losing move.
For some fans it can be a surprise this victory of a non commercial program in front of one commercial. Although a single game doesn't have statistical meaning, the game was really interesting, and Crafty showed its capabilities. Crafty has the well earned reputation, among the experts of the game for computers, of being a very strong program . Recently it won the Tournament CCT-1 for Internet, before Shredder 3 and versions of Junior and Nimzo, among others. We suggest the fans that also examine the non commercial programs, some of which are really competitive. Whichever might be the temporary result of the competition among the programs, the chessworld of the computers advances this way today .
[Event "Computer-computer"]
[Site "e-mail"]
[Date "1999.12.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Crafty17.02"]
[Black "Hiarcs7.32"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 c5 7. Bc4
Bg7 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. Rc1 Na5 11. Bd3 Qc7 12. O-O b6 13. Qd2
Bd7 14. Bf4 e5 15. Bh6 Qd6 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. d5 f5 18. Qe3 fxe4 19. Bxe4
Nc4 20. Qd3 b5 21. Ng3 Rad8 22. Qe2 Kg8 23. a4 a6 24. axb5 axb5
25. Rfd1 Qf6 26. Bd3 Nd6 27. f3 Qf4 28. Ne4 Nxe4 29. Bxe4 Rf6 30. Qf2
Rc8 31. Ra1 Rd6 32. Ra7 Qh6 33. Rb7 Qf4 34. Ra1 Qh6 35. Qe1 Rf8
36. Raa7 Rf7 37. Ra8+ Kg7 38. Rbb8 Qf4 39. g3 Qh6 40. c4 Rff6 41. cxb5
c4 42. Rg8+ Kf7 43. Rgd8 Kg7 44. b6 Rxb6 45. Rxd7+ Rf7 46. Rxf7+ Kxf7
47. Rc8 Rb2 48. h4 Qd2 49. Qxd2 Rxd2 50. Rxc4 Kf8 51. Rc7 h6 52. Rc6
g5 53. Rxh6 gxh4 54. gxh4 Rd1+ 55. Kf2 Rd2+ 56. Ke3 Rb2 57. Re6 1-0

What you have just found out, I knew long ago...I've been beating Hiarcs 7.32 (Fritz 6 interface) and Nimzo2000 and Fritz6 itself for a long time now...Crafty is second to none, especially running on fast hardware...I have played against dozens of commercial programs in the past and Crafty seems to come out on top more often then not...Way to go Bob Hyatt.....