Author: Peter Berger
Date: 13:35:30 01/20/03
To really get it posted, this one will have to be quite brief. Right after cct-4 Gerrit Reubold decided to do a complete rewrite of his engine. As his time has been very limitted , the cct-4 Bringer version is still the strongest one so far. So it was the public Bringer 1.9 to compete again - but there was a hardware update - Bringer played on a rather recent Athlon XP2600+. Last time it finished 7th - so there was some result to defend ;) . First game was against Zappa. Bringer played a few training games against it before the ccts and it is still a quite young program it seems . The tournament game soon reached a little advantage for the favourite , but Bringer being a little too fond of a free pawn that turned out to be rather weak , spoilt it. This was a well-deserved draw for Zappa, and probably also Zappa's tournament highlight. Second game featured Bringer- Monsoon with the white pieces. This has been commented on elsewhere so i can keep it short. The opening sucked and Monsoon was completely won after the opening. To add something new to the discussion, Monsoon probably spoilt the win when it left the b1-h7 diagonal delebaretely (spelling?) with its bishop , when suddenly the white passer on h became very strong. As has been already discussed Monsoon might have been able to defend itself by sacking the exchange when it decided to defend Q-RB which was hopeless. So a (very) lucky win here. Third round Searcher - Bringer brought a very tiny advantage for Bringer, that at some time tended to become more real , but it didn't really work out and it petered out soon. 4th round Quark - Bringer ( black again !) followed a theoretical game of Smirin where black improved (IMHO) with Nxf4 - again slight advantage for black - again not enough. 5th round Bringer - XiniX featured some very strange opening - strange, strange, stranger was how XiniX played . Probably some bugs made life harder for black here. So, this was the first day - Bringer did well after a rather slow start - with 3.5/5 it was doing well and was ranked at 6th place ( should have been enough rounds anyway according to Prof. Hyatt ; ) ) 6th round was Hossa-Bringer (black again!) , that started with the rather strange 1. f4 2. d4 3. Bd2 - anyway, this game was the highlight IMHO - both played very well . Bringer reached a decent advantage though , but just when it is was about to become decisive Hossa found the amazing c5! that turned out to be a viable defense. Bringer might have won this one anyway methinks , but missing some nuances it was in fact Hossa who had the advantage in late endgame here . Only with the help of the tablebases Bringer managed to escape. Couldn't we have stopped here (at last) ? :) OK, talking about preparation. In cct-4 Bringer was well-prepared for the openings I think . This was not true this time where a default book was loaded ( fuck my laziness). 7th round? AARGGH - Bringer - PepitoXX - this was SUCH a torture , a torture indeed. Bringer out of book too early allowed its black-squared bishop to become miserably weak . But what really made it soo hard watching was that Pepito never really seemed to be able to take advantage of it - the ( sometimes very huge) advantage of Pepito became less and less - and Pepito seemed to have really spoilt it - ..a4 ? Hah ! Yet it _did_ work - Pepito won - accident, skills ? Who knows .. 8th round ? Bringer - Wildcat - oh what a miserable opening .. - as I had been to lazy to even load the old tournament book I tried to play with little book - Wildcat varied early and Bringer didn't really react properly . Then Wildcat really RULED - playing SO well . It should have won ! But Bringer was superior detecting a perpetual Wildcat didn't understand early enough - and it was a draw again. The final round Bringer finally got caught because of the miserable opening preparation - The Baron just simply finished it off right out of the opening - well-deserved , but not what you like to see .. . and oh, how Bringer tried to fight, and oh, just how useless it was ;) So, this was cct-5 for Brínger . Regards, Peter PS: that's the way of the world and I had a tough time watching .. - still thanks for the tournament and I really enjoyed the lovely Yace performance as I did enjoy many friendly talks with opponents and friends.
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