Author: Theo van der Storm
Date: 12:33:58 05/17/03
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Majestic performance by The King Eric van Reem, reporting from Leiden (press-release) The King, a.k.a ChessMaster leads the field after 6 rounds in the 3rd International CSVN Computer Chess Tournament. The program, made by Dutchman Johan de Koning played some fascinating games, culminating in a spectacular queen sacrifice against “Diep” in the sixth round. In the third round of the International CSVN Tournament in Leiden Shredder and The King could add another victory to end the first day with a 100% score. The other favourites for first place, Fritz and Chess Tiger, only scored 50% on day one. On Saturday, first thing they had to do, was to play each other and it was obvious that it was going to be a very important game. The winner would still have chances to win the tourney. The game ended in a disaster for Fritz after the program was outplayed in the opening. Frans Morsch, author of Fritz, shook his head: “We shouldn’t have played the Najdorf in this game. The game was lost as soon as we came out of the book”. Jeroen Noomen, the Dutch opening wizard, who is responsible for Chess Tiger´s opening book, had found a hole in our Fritz book. Noomen: It was a lucky shot, because Fritz had played this line before in a world championship game against Crafty. I never thought that Fritz would repeat that variation but I decided to give it a try.” Shredder and The King do not very often play against each other in tournaments. Last year in the CSVN tournament, Shredder won a good game. This year The King showed no fear, although Shredder started a dangerous attack. “I grab all the pawns I can get and wel´ll see what happens”, Johan de Koning smiled during the game. It turned out to be the right strategy against ex-world champion Shredder. The King got a good position with black, but the position was very difficult to evaluate, even for computers. De Koning: “This game is a good example to show that chess still has a lot of secrets. The tactics in this game were very deep and it was impossible to evaluate the position properly.” The game ended in a draw, but this game will be interesting to analyse with different chess programs. In the fifth round Chess Tiger was lucky to get away with a draw against IsiChess MMX and Shredder saved another very difficult position against Deep Sjeng. The position seemed to be lost but Shredder found a perpetual. The King won against The Baron after a long fight and Johan de Konings brainchild crushed Diep in the sixth round with the black pieces after playing a majestic queen sacrifice. Here is the game of the Day: [Event "3rd Intl.CSVN"] [Site "Leiden NED"] [Date "2003.05.17"] [Round "06"] [White "Diep"] [Black "The King"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 cxd4 5.Qa4+ b5 6.Qxd4 Nc6 7.Qd2 exd5 8.Qxd5 Bd7 9.Qe4+ Be7 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bxe7 Ngxe7 12.e3 a6 13.O-O-O Rc8 14.Be2 b4 15.Bg4 f5 16.Bxf5 Bxf5 17.Rxd8+ Rxd8 18.Qf4 g5 19.Qg3 bxc3 20.bxc3 Rb8 21.f3 Rb1+ 22.Kd2 O-O 23.e4 Rd8+ 24.Kc2 Rbd1 25.Qf2 Be6 26.Qe2 Ra1 27.Qxa6 Rxa2+ 28.Qxa2 Bxa2 29.Ne2 Bc4 30.Nc1 Ng6 31.Rg1 Nce5 32.Nb3 Bd3+ 0-1 Theo
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