Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:53:45 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 01:30:34, Peter Kappler wrote:
>On January 20, 2003 at 00:03:34, Mark Ryan wrote:
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>>I would like to play through some (but not all) of the games. Would anyone care
>>to nominate some candidates in the following categories?
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>>Brilliancy Prize (best game by one program)
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>Ferret-Crafty. Smooth play by Ferret.
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>>Best Game Overall (best game by both programs)
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>Can't decide.
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>>Best Tactical Shot
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>In previous CCTs it seems like there has always been at least one jaw-dropper,
>but this year nothing comes to mind.
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>>Best Strategic Game (and why)
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>Again, I might vote for Ferret-Crafty. Ferret's 22. Nxg5! gave up a knight for
>2 pawns in return for pressure against black's king and a nice f5
>knight-outpost. It's fair to call this a positional sac, since Ferret didn't
>recoup any material until 13 moves later.
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>[D]2rqrbk1/5p2/pnbp1n1p/1p2p1p1/1P2P2B/1BPQ1NNP/P4PP1/R3R1K1 w - g6 0 22
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>>Theoretical Novelty (opening theory)?
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>In one of the final rounds, Schroer mentioned that Amateur(?) might have played
>a legitimate TN, but I can't recall the details.
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>>Best Endgame
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>>Best "Swindle" or Save
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>The author of Chezzz seemed very unhappy about 2 games where Chezzz blew winning
>endgame positions. Monsoon-Chezzz was one of them.
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>>Most Entertaining Game
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>Monsoon-Comet was an epic battle. Comet's 2 queens stood by and watched while
>Monsoon's Queen and rooked chased Comet's king all over the board. A super
>tense game that finally ended in a draw.
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>Here's where the fun started. Monsoon made 20 consecutive checks from this
>position:
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>[D]6k1/6p1/7p/2R5/8/P6P/2Q3PK/3q1q2 w - - 0 44
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>>Best Comment by IM Schroer
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>>Best Comment by Anyone
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>>Other "Awards"
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>"Biggest upset" would be a good one, but I don't think there were any huge ones.
There were huge upsets
Here is one of them
Aristarch played all the moves in 0 seconds and always reported depth 2.
The result is that it lost against Movei.
It may be interesting to know how many programs aristarch can win in that way
(I read that aristarch ponder about all the opponents moves so I guess that it
may give it chances to beat weak programs by that way.
[Event "ICS unrated standard match"]
[Site "chessclub.com"]
[Date "2003.01.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Aristarch"]
[Black "MoveiXX"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2385"]
[BlackElo "2354"]
[TimeControl "2700+10"]
1. d4 f5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. g3 Nc6 5. Bg2 d5 6. Ne5 Nxe5 7. dxe5 Ne4 8.
f3 Nc5 9. cxd5 Qxd5 10. Qxd5 exd5 11. Nc3 c6 12. Be3 Be7 13. Rd1 b5 14. b4
Ne6 15. Bd2 Bxb4 16. e3 Bc5 17. Ne2 O-O 18. O-O b4 19. Rfe1 Ba6 20. h4 Bc4
21. Ra1 a5 22. Bh3 a4 23. h5 Bxe2 24. Rxe2 Nd4 25. Rf2 b3 26. exd4 Bxd4 27.
Rc1 bxa2 28. Bc3 Bxc3 29. Rxa2 Bxe5 30. Rxc6 Ra5 31. f4 Bb8 32. Ra3 Ba7+
33. Kg2 Bc5 34. Ra2 a3 35. Rc7 Rb5 36. Re2 Bd4 37. Rd7 Rfb8 38. Bxf5 Rb2
39. Rxb2 Rxb2+ 40. Kh1 a2 41. Rd8+ Kf7 42. Ra8 g6 43. hxg6+ hxg6 44. Bxg6+
Kxg6 45. Ra5 Rf2 46. Ra6+ Kf5 47. Kg1 Kg4 48. Rg6+ Kf3 49. Ra6 a1=Q+ 50.
Rxa1 Ra2+ 51. Kh1 Rxa1+ 52. Kh2 Ra6 53. Kh3 Rh6#
{Aristarch checkmated} 0-1
Aristarch lost the next round on a winning position against Noonian that is the
lucky player of the tournament because Noonian also won the last round by a
stupid blunder of Xinixx that could probably win the game.
NoonianChess (2127) - Aristarch (2385) [A07]
CCT5 45 10 Internet Chess Club (5), 18.01.2003
1.Ng1-f3 d7-d5 2.g2-g3 c7-c6 3.Bf1-g2 Ng8-f6 4.0-0 Bc8-g4 5.d2-d3 e7-e6 6.Nb1-d2
Nb8-d7 7.h2-h3 Bg4-h5 8.e2-e3 Qd8-c7 9.g3-g4 Bh5-g6 10.Nf3-h4 h7-h5 11.g4-g5
Nf6-h7 12.f2-f4 Bf8-d6 13.b2-b3 Nh7-f8 14.Bc1-b2 Bd6-c5 15.Rf1-f3 f7-f6 16.d3-d4
Bc5-e7 17.g5xf6 Be7xf6 18.Nh4xg6 Nf8xg6 19.c2-c4 Ng6-h4 20.Rf3-f2 Nd7-b6
21.a2-a4 Qc7-f7 22.a4-a5 Nb6-d7 23.e3-e4 Nd7-c5 24.Qd1-b1 d5xe4 25.Nd2xe4 Nc5xe4
26.Qb1xe4 0-0 27.a5-a6 Ra8-b8 28.a6xb7 Rb8xb7 29.Ra1-a3 Rf8-b8 30.Qe4xc6 Nh4xg2
31.Rf2xg2 Rb7xb3 32.Ra3xb3 Rb8xb3 33.Kg1-h2 Bf6-d8 34.Kh2-g1 Rb3-e3 35.Qc6-a8
Qf7-e7 36.d4-d5 Game adjourned when Black got disconnected. Aristarch was
disconnected more then 15min. 1-0
NoonianChess (2127) - XinixXX (2249) [A05]
CCT5 45 10 Internet Chess Club (9), 19.01.2003
1.Ng1-f3 Ng8-f6 2.g2-g3 d7-d5 3.Bf1-g2 Bc8-f5 4.d2-d3 Nb8-c6 5.Bc1-g5 h7-h6
6.Bg5xf6 e7xf6 7.Nb1-d2 Bf8-e7 8.Ra1-c1 0-0 9.0-0 Qd8-d7 10.c2-c3 Nc6-e5
11.Qd1-b3 c7-c6 12.Nf3-d4 Bf5-g6 13.h2-h3 Qd7-c7 14.f2-f4 Be7-c5 15.Rf1-f2
Rf8-e8 16.f4xe5 f6xe5 17.Nd4-c2 a7-a5 18.a2-a4 Bc5xf2+ 19.Kg1xf2 Ra8-a6 20.c3-c4
e5-e4 21.d3-d4 Bg6-h5 22.Nc2-e3 Ra6-b6 23.Qb3-c3 f7-f5 24.c4xd5 f5-f4 25.g3xf4
Qc7xf4+ 26.Kf2-g1 Bh5xe2 27.Rc1-e1 Be2-d3 28.Nd2-c4 Rb6-a6 29.Nc4xa5 b7-b5
30.d5xc6 Qf4-c7 31.b2-b4 b5xa4 32.Re1-a1 Qc7-g3 33.Qc3-d2 Kg8-h8 34.Qd2-c1
Bd3-b5 35.Ra1-a3 Re8-f8 36.Ne3-g4 Bb5-d3 37.Kg1-h1 Ra6-b6 38.Qc1-c3 Rb6-b8
39.Ra3-a2 Rb8-c8 40.Ng4-e5 Rf8-f6 41.Ne5-d7 Rf6-f3 42.Qc3-c1 Rc8-e8 43.Nd7-c5
Bd3-b5 44.Qc1-g1 e4-e3 45.Ra2-a3 Qg3-h4 46.Ra3-a1 Rf3xh3+ 47.Bg2xh3 Qh4xh3+
48.Qg1-h2 Qh3-f1+ 49.Ra1xf1 Black resigns 1-0
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