Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:24:55 01/24/03
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On January 25, 2003 at 01:14:27, Charles Roberson wrote: > > The tournament was great fun. Tiring, but fun. I prefer the format at > WCCC 2002, but it would be too much for all tournaments to be like that. > > The competition was great. I have lots of analysis data. The talk on ch 64 > "compfortably numb" (pun intended). I enjoyed the IM commentary and Volker > performed excellently as TD. I hope to see more like these several times a > year. You can't get better competition without an expensive trip to Europe. > > Version 3.4 was used. It is 2x faster than 3.3 and more knowledgable: > better king safety, mobility, ... > It averaged a ply deeper than the Maastricht version even at half the time > control. > > I'll comment on some of the games as the theme seems repeatable. > > Game 1: Searcher - NoonianChess 1-0 > I tried our a virtually untested new book. Ran into a bug on move 6. > This caused the drop of a bishop for 2 pawns. Amazingly, Noonian played > quite well after this -- it used its center pawn advantage to control > the center and the game. Then a mistake on move 34; KxB should have been > the move (a free bishop and now Noonian would be up a full two pawns). > But seems there is a bug that caused the mistake. Analysis from CM8000 > revealed that after 34 ... KxB, Noonian can force the win of the other > bishop but alas Searcher could for a draw by perpetual check or 3frp. > > So, I was happy with the game and use my old tournament book for the > rest of the tournament. > > Game 3: NoonianChess - PostModernist 0 - 1 > Noonian gained a draw from PM in WCCC 2002. It was a great experience > competing against Andrew so, I was quite happy to do it again. Noonian > stayed in book for 10 or so moves. Noonian makes questionable bishop > moves on moves 17 and 18. (remember game 1 -- mistake in not taking a > free bishop). Noonian does not make the same mistakes when given the > positions but it does if the game is played to that point (a bug a bug > -- or is it something to dig into). After this, PostModernist performs > excellently in controlling the game. > > Game 4: Matacz - NoonianChess 0 -1 > Noonian won a pawn and created a passer on the A file by move 21. The > rest of the game centered on this one pawn. Noonian pushed the pawn and > Matacz spent most of the rest of the game keeping the a pawn from > promoting. There were times when I thought Noonian had stronger moves but > I'm not sure (I haven't analyzed it deeply but the stronger moves > involved a bishop -- hmm bishop problem sounds like a theme to me). > Finally, Matacz is able to capture the pawn on a2. However, Noonian has > too many threats on the king which causes the win of material and the > eventual mate of Matacz. A long game. After the first two, I kept > wondering when is the bug going to happen again and lose this one. > The great part of live games!!!! > > Game 5: NoonianChess - Aristarch 1 - 0 > The opening had me on the edge of my seat. Noonian was agressive from the > start with an attack on Aristarch's king side. I had some of > that "Australian speed skater luck": Aristarch lost its connection > for more than 15 minutes and forfeited the game. > > Game 6: Pepito - NoonianChess 1 - 0 > I was happy that Noonian held its own to move 35. Pepito sacs a rook for %3
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