Author: Dan Homan
Date: 05:32:46 10/08/98
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Hi Heiko,
Nice game. The king side attack was certainly relentless and well
built up. EXchess didn't stand much of a chance once your program
won the passed pawn and had the bishop-rook combination working
together.
- Dan
On October 07, 1998 at 18:54:28, Heiko Mikala wrote:
>I just wanted to let you all share some fun with me... :-)
>
>I would like to show you a game of my own program against EXChess 2.46
>which happened just after I made some aggressive changes to my
>king-safety evaluation code.
>
>And, of course, changing king-safety evaluation can also change a
>program into an aggressive king-side attacker... and that's exactly
>what happened in this game - a furious king-side attack against
>EXchess. Just have a look at the moves from move 32 on.
>
>It was real fun to watch this game! (at least for me as the programmer)
>
>By the way, this was a game/5 played on a Pentium 200 MMX, both
>programs had 8 MB hash tables and pondering was turned off for
>both programs. The game was played using Winboard 4.0.
>
>And the sad news: my program is still far away from being strong. The
>same program version played only a few minutes before this game a match
>against Arasan 4.1, the result was only 4.5 - 3.5 for my program...
>Hmm, didn't want to say that Arasan is weak, but there are definitely
>some much stronger engines out there.
>
>
>Anyway, here's the game, have fun: :-)
>
>
>[Event "Computer chess game"]
>[Site "HEIKOMIK"]
>[Date "1998.10.07"]
>[Round "1"]
>[White "EXChess246"]
>[Black "wc_test2"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[TimeControl "300"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. e4 d6 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Be2 Ng4 8.
>O-O Bxc3 9. bxc3 Nd7 10. a3 Kh8 11. Kh1 Nb6 12. Bf4 Bd7 13. Qd3 f6 14. Rae1
>g5 15. Bg3 Qe8 16. Nd2 Qg6 17. Bxg4 Bxg4 18. f3 Bd7 19. f4 Rad8 20. f5 Qh5
>21. Qe3 Rf7 22. Re2 Rdf8 23. Rfe1 Qg4 24. h3 Qh5 25. Bh2 Qh6 26. Qf3 Rg8
>27. Re3 Rfg7 28. Qg4 Ba4 29. Rb1 Rf7 30. Rg3 Rgf8 31. Re1 Nd7 32. Rge3 Ne5
>33. Qe2 b6 34. Nf1 Rg8 35. Nd2 Rfg7 36. Qf2 Qh5 37. Kg1 g4 38. Kh1 gxh3 39.
>Rxh3 Qg4 40. Rg1 Bc2 41. Qe3 a6 42. Rg3 Qxg3 43. Bxg3 Rxg3 44. Qf2 R8g4 45.
>Ra1 Nd3 46. Qf1 Rh4+ 47. Kg1 Nf4 48. Kf2 Rxg2+ 49. Qxg2 Nxg2 50. Kxg2 h5
>51. Kg3 Rg4+ 52. Kf3 Kh7 53. Rc1 Bd3 54. Rh1 Kh6 55. Ke3 Rg3+ 56. Kf2 Rg8
>57. Ke3 Bc2 58. Rc1 Ba4 59. Rh1 Rg3+ 60. Nf3 Rg4 61. Rh3 Bb3 62. Nd2 Bc2
>63. Rh1 h4 64. Rc1 Ba4 65. Rh1 Kh5 66. Kf2 Bc2 67. Ke3 Rg3+ 68. Nf3 h3 69.
>Kf4 Rg4+ 70. Ke3 Rxe4+ 71. Kd2 Ba4 72. Kd3 Rf4 73. Rxh3+ Kg4 74. Ng1 Bb3
>75. Ke3 Rxc4 76. Kd3 Ra4 77. Re3 Bxd5 78. Rxe7 Kxf5 79. Ke3 Rxa3 80. Ne2
>Bc4 81. Ng3+ Kg6 82. Kd2 Ra2+ 83. Kc1 d5 84. Re3 Kg5 85. Re6 Rg2 86. Nh5
>Kxh5 87. Rxf6 Rg6 88. Rf7 Re6 89. Rf5+ Kg6 90. Rf3 Re2 91. Rg3+ Kf5 92.
>Rf3+ Ke4 93. Rf6 Kd3 94. Rf3+ Re3 95. Rxe3+ Kxe3 96. Kb2 Kd3 97. Kb1 Kxc3
>98. Kc1 d4 99. Kd1 d3 100. Ke1 d2+ 101. Kd1 Bb3+ 102. Ke2 d1=Q+ 103. Kf2
>Qd4+ 104. Kf1 Bd5 105. Ke1 Bg2 106. Ke2 Qd2#
>{Black mates} 0-1
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>Heiko.
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