M.MCLURE%LOTS-B@SU-SCORE.ARPA (07/04/84)
Below is reproduced a game the Fidelity Prestige chess machine
recently played against me. I have a provisional rating of 1550
based on 15 games. Not great, but not terrible.
Prestige makes a very interesting move at 17 ... Ng3. I prefer
this game to the Blitz vs. Belle game of a few years ago where
Belle makes a 10-ply mating sacrifice giving up a rook.
Here, Prestige makes a 10-ply king position disruption sacrifice
giving up a knight. If White does not return the Knight, all sorts
of mating threats ensue at about the 10-12 ply level.
This is easily the most impressive micro chess game I've seen.
White - Cracraft/1550, Black - Prestige/1875
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Nc6 bc6
7. Qc2 Nf6 8. Bd3 d5 9. ed5 cd5 10. cd5 Qd5 11. o-o Bb7 12. f3 Rd8
13. Rd1 Qd4 14. Kh1 o-o 15. Nc3 Qc5 16. Bf4 Nh5 17. Bd2 Ng3 18. hg3 Qh5
19. Kg1 Bd4 20. Be3 Be3 21. Kf1 Bd4 22. Ke1 Qe5 23. Kf1 Qe3 24. Rde1 Kg1
25. Ke2 Qg2 26. Kd1 Qf3 27. Kc1 Bc3 White resigns.
The time control was 40 moves in 2 hours.
Stuart
[For a record of the first game in which a micro defeated a USCF-rated
master in a tournament game see David Welsh's letter in IEEE Spectrum,
July 1984, p. 8. Jerry C. Simon (rated 2245) was mated (that's chess
talk) in 55 moves by Novag's Constellation chess micro, which uses the
same 6502 8-bit processor as the Prestige machine. An earlier Spectrum
report that David Moody held the dubious honor of the first defeat was
incorrect. -- KIL]