Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:07:24 05/17/03
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On May 17, 2003 at 17:05:25, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I meant untested version in the last sentence. I test 2 version of movei and look at the games during posting so I was not concentrated enough not to do mistakes. Uri
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