Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 17:18:38 04/28/01
Go up one level in this thread
On April 28, 2001 at 19:24:53, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>On April 28, 2001 at 18:40:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>At depth 4 it is the same as letting Gambit Tiger II play at only 1 second per
>move, since it reaches more than depth 5 in one second, and after it reached the
>maximun depth it will stop calculating for the rest of the remaining time.
PS: Next time instead of setting Gambit Tiger II to play at a certain time
control, try setting the depth = 8 which will take GT II proprably 3 seconds per
move and activate the Anti Human play and report your game here at CCC.
>Pichard.
>
>>In my first game (40/40) on P_III 800/128 against Gambit Tiger 2.0 the strong
>>chess programm got never a chance to launch on of its attack.
>>
>>[Event "Gambit Tiger 2 40/40"]
>>[Site "Wetzikon"]
>>[Date "2001.04.28"]
>>[Round "1"]
>>[White "Gambit Tiger 2.0"]
>>[Black "Utzinger, Kurt"]
>>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>>[ECO "B12"]
>>[WhiteElo "2500"]
>>[BlackElo "1993"]
>>[Annotator "2001-04-28"]
>>[PlyCount "95"]
>>[EventDate "2001.04.28"]
>>
>>{White: Gambit Tiger 2.0 P_III 800/128, 48 MB hash 4-men TB's, cache size 16
>>MB, depth 4 Book: User Engine book ct.tbk Anti human play: not activated
>> Style: normal Time control: 40/40 + 40/40 } 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 {
>>White last book move} 3... g6 {
>>Unexpected for me, Gambit Tiger 2 was already out of book.} 4. Nf3 Bg4 {
>>If Black plays this move he must be ready to give up the bishop pair.} 5. h3
>>Bxf3 6. Qxf3 e6 {Looks dangerous in view of the weakness on the dark squares
>>in Black's camp. But sooner or later Black cannot avoid e7-e6. The idea is to
>>poste my Bf8 on e7 instead of at g7. I had made the experience in this kind
>>of position that Black - after Bf8-g7 - is later often forced to bring his B
>>back to e7. So why not at once? All this may be become more clear in the
>>ensuing comments of the game.} 7. Nd2 h5 {In my opinion no waste of time.
>>Black intends to prevent g2-g4 and is planning h5-h4 at the right moment in
>>order to let follow the maneouvre Ng8-h6-f5 or Ng8-e7-f5.} 8. Nb3 Nd7 {
>>With pressure on e5 thus not allowing the enemy knight to go to c5.} 9. c3 {
>>Instantly played.} 9... Be7 10. Be3 Nh6 11. Bd3 {Gambit Tiger 2 played this
>>and the following three moves instantly. I didn't like that.} 11... Nf5 {
>>A good place for the knight.} 12. O-O Bg5 {
>>Due to a lack of other ideas I decided to exchange bishops.} 13. Rad1 {
>>Having already used 20 minutes on the clock I became nervous and again "lost"
>>four minutes to find a suitable plan.} 13... Bxe3 {Another trial was the
>>waiting move 13...Qe7 that, fairly spoken, did not come to my mind.} 14. fxe3
>>Qg5 15. e4 Qe3+ {Exchanging Q is not a bad policy against a dangerous attacker
>>like Gambit Tiger 2.} 16. Kh2 Qxf3 17. Rxf3 {
>>Forced. If 17.gxf3 Black replies 17...Ne3 and Gambit Tiger 2 looses material.}
>>17... dxe4 18. Bxe4 O-O-O {
>>Doing something for the development and defending the pawns on the queen wing.}
>>19. Rc1 Kb8 {I was not unhappy with the situation: the Nf5 has a strong
>>position and White's king side is more or less blocked whereas on the other
>>wing it should be possible to build up a sufficient defence.} 20. Rf2 h4 {
>>Preventing g2-g4 for ever. On the other hand the advanced pawn may become weak
>>should White succeed in placing the rook on f4 and the his knight to f3.
>>Nevertheless played I this move automatically as it seemed to be the "correct"
>>one.} 21. Na5 {Is 22.Bxc6 bxc6 23.Nxc6 Kc7 24.Nxd8 a threat? I had no time to
>>investigate and so I took the rook to defend c6. It was of course also
>>possible to reply with 21...Kc7, but I feared that White could break up the
>>c-file.} 21... Rc8 22. Rb1 Rc7 {Passive defence instead the active
>>continuation 22...f6, a move for which I had not thought a moment.} 23. b4 Rhc8
>>{Again played very fast in order not to loose the game on time. White's clock:
>>21:03, Black's clock: 30:28} 24. Nb3 {Is this really the best move? I was just
>>thinking about how to answer 24.Nc4 when White relieved me.} 24... Rh8 25. Nc5
>>Nxc5 {After short reflection and in view of my feeling that the half open
>>b-line will not become dangerous, I decided to exchange the knights.} 26. bxc5
>>Ka8 {Maybe it is necessary to have the square b8 free for a rook.} 27. a4 Ng3
>>28. Bd3 Nf5 29. a5 a6 30. Rf3 Ka7 {And now I leant back since I could not
>>imagine how White should be able to make further progress. Important is only
>>that Black is doing nothing.} 31. Kg1 Rh5 32. Kf2 Rh8 33. Bc4 Rd8 34. Rf4 Rh8
>>35. Rb6 Rh5 36. Rf3 Rh8 37. Ke2 Rh5 38. Bd3 Rh8 39. Bc2 Rh5 40. Kf2 Rh8 41. Bb1
>>Rh5 42. Ba2 Rh8 43. Ke2 Rh5 44. Bc4 Rh8 45. Kd3 Rh5 46. Rb2 Rh8 47. Ke4 Rd7 48.
>>Ba2 {adjusted} 1/2-1/2
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.