exciting Amy game

[John Grant]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: John Grant at 19 May 2000 12:31:48:
I observed a WinBoard game (on P-III 450 MHz 128 MB SD-RAM hash size of 32MB for both programs at the time control of 40 moves every 60 minutes) a victory for (as I remembered) Crux 1.2R as White over Amy as Black. The highlight of this game was an outstanding "human-like" exchange by Amy; the Black Bishop and Knight were traded for the White Pawn on f2 and Rook on f1 soon after White castled (on the King-side:O-O). In a casual rapid game I lost with White chessmen against Ian Rogers(who told my father before we played that he had the ambition to become a master or grandmaster if possible) with Black chessmen (at the chess club where he was director of play in 1970), the exactly same exchange in a very similar position was initiated by Black. Unfortunately I do not have the record of the moves in both games discussed above.
Maybe a table of more refined material values for each chessman in specific categorised positions according to number of empty chessmen and type of chessmen would help Crux and other improving programs evaluate better. For example: Queen at the beginning of the game is 9.75 pawns and doubled is 19.50 pawns when it is the only chessman on the chessboard.
With best wishes from John.

[WYx]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: WYx at 19 May 2000 16:49:04:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: exciting Amy game geschrieben von: / posted by: John Grant at 19 May 2000 12:31:48:

I observed a WinBoard game (on P-III 450 MHz 128 MB SD-RAM hash size of 32MB for both programs at the time control of 40 moves every 60 minutes) a victory for (as I remembered) Crux 1.2R as White over Amy as Black. The highlight of this game was an outstanding "human-like" exchange by Amy; the Black Bishop and Knight were traded for the White Pawn on f2 and Rook on f1 soon after White castled (on the King-side:O-O).

...and, which is the Winner?
regards
WYx

[John Grant]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: John Grant at 19 May 2000 17:31:03:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: please geschrieben von: / posted by: WYx at 19 May 2000 16:49:04:

I observed a WinBoard game (on P-III 450 MHz 128 MB SD-RAM hash size of 32MB for both programs at the time control of 40 moves every 60 minutes) a victory for (as I remembered) Crux 1.2R as White over Amy as Black. The highlight of this game was an outstanding "human-like" exchange by Amy; the Black Bishop and Knight were traded for the White Pawn on f2 and Rook on f1 soon after White castled (on the King-side:O-O).

...and, which is the Winner?
regards
WYx

Crux 1.2R was the winner of this game !!(I think so)...I was eating and was surprised that Amy 0.7 lost and was just going to save the game to floppy disk when I had to re-start Windows98 ... I lost the game.
Regards from John

[John Grant]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: John Grant at 20 May 2000 03:34:48:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: please geschrieben von: / posted by: John Grant at 19 May 2000 17:31:03:

I observed a WinBoard game (on P-III 450 MHz 128 MB SD-RAM hash size of 32MB for both programs at the time control of 40 moves every 60 minutes) a victory for (as I remembered) Crux 1.2R as White over Amy as Black. The highlight of this game was an outstanding "human-like" exchange by Amy; the Black Bishop and Knight were traded for the White Pawn on f2 and Rook on f1 soon after White castled (on the King-side:O-O).

...and, which is the Winner?
regards
WYx

Crux 1.2R was the winner of this game !!(I think so)...I was eating and was surprised that Amy 0.7 lost and was just going to save the game to floppy disk when I had to re-start Windows98 ... I lost the game.
Regards from John

Dear "WYx",
My memory after a normal night's sleep thinking about this game was better. The result is more likely the other way around ... in this game Crux 1.2R played Black and Amy 0.7 played White, I was really disappointed that one side won. "Hats off" anyway to both programs for the human-like exchange...I learnt a valuable lesson that in longer time control it is very useful to have in the amy.rc file "autosave=true" not false and put in the folder "save games" within the "Amy"folder within the "Winboard"folder.
Sorry for my mistake ... even in the memory of 30 years ago I was doubtful until recently that I played with "Ian Rogers"...I watched him in an interview talking with Peter Svidler on avi no.12 on ChessBase Magazine No.67 Extra CD-Format.
That's real life "WYx"
Regards from John.