Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:05:25 05/17/03
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On May 17, 2003 at 15:33:58, Theo van der Storm wrote: >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 Thanks for the report. I am interested to know what happened to xinix. I know that this program did better in a tournament many months ago. I also heard that the programmer have a lot of ideas. Is the problem of Xinix bad testing or doing bad changes in the last moment? Does Tony decide to try to win tournament and believe that his best chance is to play with unstable version because with a stable version he may be only in the middle of the table? Uri
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