Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:08:44 07/19/03
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On July 18, 2003 at 11:40:42, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have some interesting news. A young programmer from my University (the
>University of Nis, Serbia), an electronics engineer, Vladan Vuckovich, has
>created a strong chess program called Geniss Axon. This program had its first
>public tournament against humans the day before yesterday and it won ahead of
>three IMs! It was a rapid chess event and here is one of the games. Look at
>the move Nd4 when Geniss sacrificed its Bishop :)
>
>Vladimir has contacted me saying that he has decided to apply for the Leiden
>tournament if something like that is feasible within the Leiden participation
>rules. Therefore I would like to ask some people from the Leiden organisation
>team to tell me what the participation rules are and in case Geniss Axon could
>be admitted to the tournament would there be someone to operate Geniss Axon for
>Vladan (if that is possible too, because I believe that programmers are usually
>required to operate their own programs). The program is extremely fast (about 2
>million positions per second on my Athlon 2400+) and written in assembler. Just
>like Fritz... It has beaten some commercials several and I saw it beat Crafty as
>well:) Geniss Axon has been in development since 1997, but it has started
>playing friendly games against humans only last year.
>
>I am attaching a game from the day before yesterday when Geniss Axon beat IM
>Miljkovic (the "atc" stands for the attacking version of Geniss Axon, targeting
>human players).
>
>[Event ""]
>[Site "Nis"]
>[Date "16.7.2003 21:31:24"]
>[Round " 65003 sec. per move"]
>[White " Geniss Axon XP , v650_atc, July 16 2003. "]
>[Black "Miroslav Miljkovic"]
>[Result ""]
>[ECO "B33 Sicilian: Sveshnikov variation |e=79| "]
>[PlyCount "77"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 3. d4 c:d4 4. Nf3:d4 Ng8-f6 5. Nb1-c3
>e5 6. Nd4-b5 d6 7. Bc1-g5 a6 8. Nb5-a3 b5 9. Bg5:f6 g:f6 10. Nc3-d5
>f5 11. Bf1-d3 Bc8-e6 12. O-O Be6:d5 13. e:d5 Nc6-e7 14. Na3:b5
>e4 15. Nb5-d4 e:d3 16. Rf1-e1 Qd8-a5 17. Qd1:d3 Qa5:d5 18. c4
>Qd5-b7 19. Nd4:f5 O-O-O 20. Nf5:d6+ Rd8:d6 21. Qd3:d6 Qb7-c6
>22. Ra1-d1 Qc6:d6 23. Rd1:d6 Ne7-g6 24. Re1-e8+ Kc7 25. Rd6:a6
>Bf8-g7 26. Re8:h8 Bg7:h8 27. b4 Bh8-d4 28. c5 Ng6-e5 29. Ra6-d6
>Bd4-b2 30. Rd6-d5 Kc6 31. Rd5-d6+ Kc7 32. b5 Bb2-a3 33. Rd6-d5
>f6 34. h4 h5 35. g3 Ba3-b4 36. f4 Ne5-d7 37. c6 Nd7-b6 38. Rd5:h5
>Nb6-c4 39. Rh5-h7+
>
>{ This PGN file was generated by Geniss Axon XP , v650_atc, 16. July
>2003. }
>
>Regards,
>
>Djordje
Chessmaster 9000 believes that Bc4 is slightly better (about 0.3) than Nd4,
because Black did not follow through properly with 16...dxc2 17.Qxc2 Rc8.
After 16...Qa5 and 18...Qb7, Black is lost.
But it won, so it was a great move! :-)
jm
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