Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:44:17 01/31/02
Last weekend's report was :
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?208853 ( probably not up anymore,
but not yet in the search engine).
How was Bringer's second weekend ?
(Oh, btw :I really like the CCC search engine . Just found this one :
http://www.it.ro/ccc_search/ccc.php?art_id=197938 and had a good laugh :
"It seems there will probably be about 40 competitors in the cct-4 . Why 11
rounds then ? 7 rounds should be enough and make schedule easier." )
I'll return to this November statement soon :-).
Where were we ? Oh - time for the missing round reports:
7th round : Bringer - Pharaon 1-0
(Three days have passed since I wrote the first few lines - enthusiasm dies fast
once a tournament is over .. - I'll finish this report tonight in reporter style
- no matter what - who cares about analysis :-) )
One of the crucial games in a tournament , against a rival of similar strength.
Win and go up the ladder , lose and vanish somewhere in the field.
Pharaon chose the French as usual and black's position looked nice right after
the opening. Major problem for both sides remained king safety though. Then the
programs went wild and entered complicated tactical struggle which Bringer left
as the winner . Thrilling to watch , tough to analyze. Fun to watch for lovers
of tactical battles probably and I suspect this was Bringer's best game in the
tournament. Black resigned a little early but it was justified. I think where
others were lucky more than once Pharaon had tough luck in several games in this
tournament and finished too low.
[Event "ICS Match (Partie in 60 Minuten + 10 Sekunde(n) pro Zug)"]
[Site "unbekannt"]
[Date "2002.01.26"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Bringer1.9"]
[Black "pharaon(C)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2489"]
[BlackElo "2148"]
1. e4 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } e6 2. d4 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } d5 3. e5 { 0.00
0:00:00.0 }
c5 4. c3 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } Nc6 5. Nf3 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 }
Bd7 6. Be2 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } Nge7 7. Na3 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 }
cxd4 8. cxd4 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } Nf5 9. Nc2 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 }
Qb6 10. O-O { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } a5 11. g4 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 }
Nfe7 12. Nh4 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } f6 13. exf6 { 0.12/14 0:02:05.1 }
gxf6 14. b3 {-0.02/13 0:02:50.1 (PB: 0:00:01.1 ) } a4 15. Rb1 { 0.36/13
0:01:53.5 }
axb3 16. Rxb3 { 0.25/13 0:02:19.8 } Qc7 17. Na3 { 0.15/13 0:01:47.2 (PB:
0:00:01.0 ) }
Ng6 18. Ng2 { 0.13/13 0:01:57.3 } Qc8 19. Qd2 { 0.27/11 0:02:04.1 }
e5 20. dxe5 { 0.31/13 0:01:48.7 } fxe5 21. Nb5 { 0.41/12 0:02:33.8 (PB:
0:00:01.3 ) }
Be6 22. Rb2 { 0.48/11 0:01:45.7 (PB: 0:00:01.0 ) } d4 23. Qc2 { 0.47/11
0:01:14.7 (PB: 0:01:14.5 ) }
Bd5 24. Bg5 { 0.47/10 0:01:58.4 } Rg8 25. Re1 { 0.39/10 0:01:39.4 }
Qd7 26. a4 { 0.47/10 0:01:31.7 (PB: 0:01:31.5 ) } Rg7 27. Reb1 { 0.40/11
0:01:24.2 }
Rf7 28. Bd1 { 0.28/11 0:01:28.2 (PB: 0:01:28.0 ) } Na5 29. Qd3 { 0.42/11
0:01:53.8 }
Nc4 30. Rc2 { 0.08/11 0:00:48.0 } Rxa4 31. Rcc1 {-0.08/11 0:01:27.9 (PB:
0:00:24.7 ) }
Ra2 32. Rxc4 { 0.93/11 0:01:36.7 (PB: 0:01:36.6 ) } Rfxf2 33. Nc7+ { 1.49/11
0:00:58.9 }
Kf7 34. Ne1 { 1.43/11 0:01:35.4 (PB: 0:00:19.6 ) } Bc6 35. Rxc6 { 2.34/11
0:01:13.9 (PB: 0:00:10.4 ) }
bxc6 36. Bb3+ { 2.52/11 0:00:58.7 (PB: 0:00:11.6 ) } Kg7 37. Ne6+ { 3.42/11
0:03:36.5 (PB: 0:00:28.4 ) }
Kh8 38. Nf3 { 3.52/12 0:01:30.8 (PB: 0:00:01.1 ) } Qf7
{pharaon resigns}1-0
Here we are and something to remember - standings after 7th round -
http://www.vrichey.de/cct4/round7.htm :-) , but there were four more rounds to
go.
8th round : Junior - Bringer 1/2
Another wild complicated tactical battle. After a sensible opening and an equal
early middlegame Junior somehow managed to get a strong attack later and
outplayed black and Bringer maybe missed something somewhere ?! :-) (this after
an hour with Fritz analysis .. ) . I'll leave this to the stronger players to
find out .
Interesting is to find out where Junior failed :
ban(C) - Bringer1.9
[D]8/6Np/1p3Q2/p2k4/6q1/8/1P3K1P/8 w - - 0 1
Can this be won for white ? I think it's very likely even though it's difficult
- after Junior's 43. Nf5? it looks like a forced perpetual.
[Event "ICS Match (Partie in 60 Minuten + 10 Sekunde(n) pro Zug)"]
[Site "unbekannt"]
[Date "2002.01.26"]
[Round "1"]
[White "ban(C)"]
[Black "Bringer1.9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2701"]
[BlackElo "2489"]
1. e4 c5 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 2. Nf3 d6 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 3. d4
cxd4 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 4. Nxd4 Nf6 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 5. Nc3
a6 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 6. Be3 e6 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 7. Be2
b6 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 8. f4 Bb7 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 9. Bf3
Nbd7 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 10. O-O Rc8 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 11. Qe1
Rc7 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 12. Rd1 Qc8 { 0.00 0:00:00.0 } 13. Bf2
Be7 {-0.86/13 0:01:23.6 } 14. e5 Bxf3 {-0.09/15 0:01:31.2 }
15. Nxf3 dxe5 { 0.00/14 0:01:17.5 (PB: 0:00:39.7 ) } 16. fxe5
Ng4 { 0.09/14 0:02:10.8 } 17. Bd4 O-O { 0.11/13 0:02:46.5 (PB: 0:00:02.5 ) }
18. a4 Rd8 { 0.21/13 0:01:37.9 } 19. Qg3 Nh6 { 0.41/13 0:04:19.4 }
20. Ng5 Rc4 { 0.60/12 0:01:07.1 } 21. Nge4 Nf5 { 0.29/13 0:01:22.8 }
22. Rxf5 exf5 { 0.15/13 0:01:50.6 (PB: 0:00:26.3 ) } 23. Nd6
Bxd6 { 0.04/14 0:02:45.7 (PB: 0:02:45.5 ) } 24. exd6 f6 { 0.05/13 0:01:16.2
(PB: 0:01:16.1 ) }
25. Nd5 Kf8 { 0.18/12 0:01:48.1 (PB: 0:01:48.0 ) } 26. c3 Rxa4 { 0.57/12
0:01:00.9 }
27. Ne7 Qc4 { 0.02/12 0:01:22.1 } 28. Nxf5 Qf7 {-0.05/11 0:01:44.1 (PB:
0:00:02.7 ) }
29. Re1 Re8 { 0.12/12 0:00:59.9 (PB: 0:00:02.5 ) } 30. Re7
Ra1+ {-0.21/12 0:01:39.5 (PB: 0:00:03.2 ) } 31. Kf2 Qg6 {-0.55/13 0:01:12.6
(PB: 0:00:02.3 ) }
32. Rxe8+ Kxe8 {-1.43/13 0:05:23.7 (PB: 0:00:02.6 ) } 33. Qe3+
Ne5 {-2.08/13 0:02:33.1 (PB: 0:00:02.8 ) } 34. Qe4 Rd1 {-2.22/11 0:01:41.1
(PB: 0:00:02.6 ) }
35. g4 Rxd4 {-1.73/10 0:01:16.0 (PB: 0:00:03.0 ) } 36. cxd4
Qxg4 {-1.82/12 0:01:33.7 (PB: 0:01:33.5 ) } 37. d7+ Kxd7 {-2.05/13 0:00:36.5
(PB: 0:00:36.3 ) }
38. Qb7+ Ke6 {-2.04/13 0:00:54.5 (PB: 0:00:25.3 ) } 39. Nxg7+
Kd6 {-2.14/13 0:02:02.1 (PB: 0:00:21.8 ) } 40. dxe5+ Kxe5 {-2.13/13 0:02:39.9
(PB: 0:00:02.6 ) }
41. Qe7+ Kd5 {-2.21/13 0:02:21.3 (PB: 0:00:02.6 ) } 42. Qxf6
a5 {-2.48/11 0:01:26.8 (PB: 0:00:26.8 ) } 43. Nf5 Qf4+ {-2.03/11 0:01:11.9 }
44. Kg2 Qe4+ {-0.60/13 0:00:45.1 } 45. Kh3 Qf3+ {-0.20/13 0:01:01.5 (PB:
0:00:07.0 ) }
46. Kh4 Qf2+ {-0.55/12 0:01:01.0 (PB: 0:01:00.8 ) } 47. Kg5
Qd2+ {-0.59/13 0:01:39.6 } 48. Kh5 Qxh2+ {-0.18/14 0:06:40.7 (PB: 0:06:40.6 )
}
49. Nh4 Qe2+ {-0.16/12 0:00:52.4 (PB: 0:00:52.2 ) } 50. Kh6
Qe3+ {-0.15/13 0:01:37.7 (PB: 0:01:37.6 ) } 51. Kxh7 Kc4 {-0.15/12 0:00:56.8
(PB: 0:00:56.7 ) }
52. Nf5 Qh3+ {-0.15/12 0:01:12.9 (PB: 0:01:12.8 ) } 53. Kg7
Kb3 {-0.14/12 0:00:41.0 } 54. Kf7 Ka2 {-0.12/11 0:00:51.1 }
55. Nd4
{Game drawn by mutual agreement}1/2-1/2
9th round: Bringer - Fritz O-1
A surprising Fritz move :
Bringer1.9 - DeepFritz(C)
[D]4rrk1/ppq1bppp/3p2b1/2pPN3/4P1P1/2NQ3P/PPP2P2/R2R2K1 b - - 0 1
Here Fritz played the surprising pawn sac 18. ...Bf6!? Is this stronger than the
drawish dxe5 ? It worked well enough - Bringer was killed in 32 moves... Well
anyway, it's Fritz and losing first game in 9th round ..
10th round:: Tao - Bringer 1/2
When we forget about first game against Celes this is probably the only game
where Bringer was left out of opening book in a rather unfriendly position. In
a Sicilian with the unusual 2. c4 Tao managed to transpose in a Maroczy bind
which looked very passive for black.
TaoYin - Bringer1.9
[D]4rrk1/1p1bppbp/p2p2p1/q2nn1B1/P1PNP3/1P3PP1/6BP/2RQ1R1K w - - 0 1
I think this is the point where Tao lost its little advantage with the weaker
move 18.cxd5?!
A nice little shot by Bringer:
TaoYin - Bringer1.9
[D]r1r3k1/3bp3/3p1p1p/B1qPn1p1/4P1P1/5P2/R3B2P/QR5K b - - 0 1
34. ...Bxg4! Maybe not _too_ difficult for a silicon but Bringer continued not
to go for the perpetual but tried to win instead !
Would it have been possible to succeed ?
TaoYin - Bringer1.9
[D]r1r3k1/1q2p3/3p1p1p/B5p1/6P1/8/R2R3P/Q5K1 b - - 0 1
I think here Bringer missed its chances with 43. ...Qf3?! where 43....Qe4! might
have made the day. At least it is clear that Qe4 would have been the better
move.
An exciting game to watch in the penultimate round - probably not as witty as
the tactical battles before but easier to follow for a human :)
11th round : Bringer - Monsoon 1-0
Final round in a Swiss event : I slowly begin to believe in Gerrit Reubold's
funny theory that it's the only important one after all . Beat Hiarcs and
Pharaon ? Draw Fritz, Gandalf , Goliath, Junior, Zarkov ? Who cares ? Lose the
final round and you'll get a fair place somewhere in the middle of the pack ...
So it was Monsoon for the shoot-out, the well-known mighty last knight of the
Benoni . A question of honour to go for 1. d4 .
After they left the opening book both programs thought that the position was
about equal and soon both decided to enter a forced tactical line with similar
mainlines and evaluation eventually rising very much in White's favour.
Spectators couldn't really follow the programs' logic here and expected a draw
for a long time even when both programs were up to +5 for White already .
Bringer still had some technical difficulties as it was very eager to keep the
queens on the board all the time and it spent about 90% of its time in Q-Search
searching to something like ply 10 for a few moves in the endgame ..
Maybe it was simply the final round stress but I was frightened a lot in this
game :-). I didn't know Monsoon well before - it seems to be a _really_ deep
searcher. It often got the point much earlier but the point was that it was even
better for white all the time. I expect it to be a major competitor in the next
CCTs .
OK - and then it was over. Two weekends spent in front of the computer watching
Gerrit Reubold's program. It is unbelievable what an exhausting experience this
is even if there is _nothing_ to do except watching and you are not even the
programmer of the engine :-)
The final result of CCT4 is clearly the biggest success in Bringer's (still
short) tournament history. Congrats to Gerrit !
In this very strong field it finished with 7/11 on shared 5th rank - 7th by
Buchholz etc. , ahead of several commercials and much more well-known programs,
lost only one game, played against most of the tops.
CCT1 : 12th/22
CCT3: 9th/32
CCT4: 7th/46
It's hard to imagine that this can be still improved on in CCT5 - but well,
that's what I thought before the start of CCT4 , too :-).
Again the tournament was much fun and many thanks to the organizers ! Also the
atmosphere was very friendly , with many nice and interesting talks. The
tournament underdog hero clearly was Quark this time and Junior proved it is a
playing champion that took the challenge in this tournament where there was not
much to earn for it - a playing worldchampion and well-deserved winner.
Cheers,
pete
PS: Gerrit and me met on ICC on Monday to discuss the tournament but somehow we
were both not interested in tournament talks too much. So he had to face his
little Frankenstein for himself in quite a lot of games instead. I think he did
quite well ( hehe , he will hate me for that part ..) Maybe the most interesting
one :
[Event "ICS Match (Partie in 5 Minuten + 0 Sekunde(n) pro Zug)"]
[Site "unbekannt"]
[Date "2002.01.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Bringer1.9"]
[Black "guest2337"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2
cxd4 7. cxd4 Bb5 8. Nc3 Bxe2 9. Nxe2 Bb4+ 10. Bd2 Nc6
11. O-O Bxd2 12. Qxd2 Nge7 13. Rac1 O-O 14. Rc5 Rac8 15. Rfc1
a6 16. Ng5 { 0.15/10 0:00:11.3 } h6 17. Nf3 { 0.19/12 0:00:08.3 }
Nb4 18. a3 { 0.25/12 0:00:05.3 } Nbc6 19. b4 { 0.20/12 0:00:13.7 (PB:
0:00:13.6 ) }
Na7 20. Qd3 { 0.26/11 0:00:08.4 } Rxc5 21. bxc5 { 0.25/12 0:00:09.3 }
Qb5 22. Qxb5 { 0.30/13 0:00:05.9 } Nxb5 23. a4 { 0.32/14 0:00:04.5 (PB:
0:00:04.4 ) }
Na7 24. Rb1 { 0.33/13 0:00:04.1 (PB: 0:00:04.0 ) } Rb8 25. h3 { 0.31/13
0:00:03.9 (PB: 0:00:03.8 ) }
Nac8 26. Nd2 { 0.28/12 0:00:06.3 } b5 27. axb5 { 0.33/14 0:00:04.6 }
Rxb5 28. g4 { 0.49/11 0:00:03.9 } Rxb1+ 29. Nxb1 { 0.60/14 0:00:03.9 }
Nc6 30. f4 { 0.45/14 0:00:04.6 } N8a7 31. Kf2 { 0.54/14 0:00:07.6 (PB:
0:00:02.9 ) }
Nb5 32. Ke3 { 0.34/14 0:00:06.5 (PB: 0:00:02.7 ) } Kf8 33. f5 { 0.34/14
0:00:05.6 (PB: 0:00:02.8 ) }
Ke7 34. Nbc3 { 0.58/12 0:00:03.2 } Nxc3 35. Nxc3 { 0.58/13 0:00:07.6 }
Kd7 36. h4 { 0.73/12 0:00:02.8 } Ke7 37. g5 { 0.73/12 0:00:03.2 }
hxg5 38. hxg5 { 0.73/14 0:00:03.0 (PB: 0:00:02.8 ) } g6 39. f6+ { 0.79/16
0:00:03.1 }
Kd7 40. Na4 { 0.78/16 0:00:02.6 (PB: 0:00:02.4 ) } Kc7 41. Kd3 { 0.61/16
0:00:12.8 }
Nb4+ 42. Kd2 { 0.57/16 0:00:04.5 (PB: 0:00:04.4 ) } Kc6 43. Nc3 { 0.59/16
0:00:03.5 }
a5 44. Nb1 { 0.60/16 0:00:06.0 (PB: 0:00:05.8 ) } Kb5 45. Kc3 { 0.50/14
0:00:04.7 }
Nc6 46. Na3+ { 0.59/15 0:00:04.0 } Ka4 47. Nc2 { 0.56/15 0:00:08.3 }
Nb4 48. Ne3 { 1.48/14 0:00:02.9 } Kb5 49. Nf5 { 3.18/12 0:00:02.3 }
Ka4 50. Nd6 { 7.19/15 0:00:17.7 } Ka3 51. Nxf7 { 10.42/13 0:00:01.5 }
a4 52. Nd8 { 11.19/12 0:00:01.9 } Na2+ 53. Kd2 { 11.86/13 0:00:02.4 (PB:
0:00:02.2 ) }
Kb2 54. f7 { 12.26/13 0:00:03.8 (PB: 0:00:03.6 ) } a3 55. c6 { 12.26/12
0:00:01.6 (PB: 0:00:01.4 ) }
Nb4 56. c7 { 23.20/9 0:00:11.1 }
{guest2337 resigns}1-0
PPS: For those who heard the program name for the first time and got interested
. You can get your own copy of the very tournament version - it is the one you
can download at Gerrit's homepage : http://www.reubold.onlinehome.de . The
program has a GUI of its own and should be easy to install for everyone.
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