Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 09:55:45 07/18/03
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On July 18, 2003 at 12:47:14, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>On July 18, 2003 at 12:30:57, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On July 18, 2003 at 11:40:42, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have some interesting news. A young programmer from my University (the
>>>University of Nis, Serbia), an electronics engineer, Vladan Vuckovich, has
>>>created a strong chess program called Geniss Axon. This program had its first
>>>public tournament against humans the day before yesterday and it won ahead of
>>>three IMs! It was a rapid chess event and here is one of the games. Look at
>>>the move Nd4 when Geniss sacrificed its Bishop :)
>>>
>>>Vladimir has contacted me saying that he has decided to apply for the Leiden
>>>tournament if something like that is feasible within the Leiden participation
>>>rules. Therefore I would like to ask some people from the Leiden organisation
>>>team to tell me what the participation rules are and in case Geniss Axon could
>>>be admitted to the tournament would there be someone to operate Geniss Axon for
>>>Vladan (if that is possible too, because I believe that programmers are usually
>>>required to operate their own programs). The program is extremely fast (about 2
>>>million positions per second on my Athlon 2400+) and written in assembler. Just
>>>like Fritz... It has beaten some commercials several and I saw it beat Crafty as
>>>well:) Geniss Axon has been in development since 1997, but it has started
>>>playing friendly games against humans only last year.
>>>
>>>I am attaching a game from the day before yesterday when Geniss Axon beat IM
>>>Miljkovic (the "atc" stands for the attacking version of Geniss Axon, targeting
>>>human players).
>>>
>>>[Event ""]
>>>[Site "Nis"]
>>>[Date "16.7.2003 21:31:24"]
>>>[Round " 65003 sec. per move"]
>>>[White " Geniss Axon XP , v650_atc, July 16 2003. "]
>>>[Black "Miroslav Miljkovic"]
>>>[Result ""]
>>>[ECO "B33 Sicilian: Sveshnikov variation |e=79| "]
>>>[PlyCount "77"]
>>>
>>>1. e4 c5 2. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 3. d4 c:d4 4. Nf3:d4 Ng8-f6 5. Nb1-c3
>>>e5 6. Nd4-b5 d6 7. Bc1-g5 a6 8. Nb5-a3 b5 9. Bg5:f6 g:f6 10. Nc3-d5
>>>f5 11. Bf1-d3 Bc8-e6 12. O-O Be6:d5 13. e:d5 Nc6-e7 14. Na3:b5
>>>e4 15. Nb5-d4 e:d3 16. Rf1-e1 Qd8-a5 17. Qd1:d3 Qa5:d5 18. c4
>>>Qd5-b7 19. Nd4:f5 O-O-O 20. Nf5:d6+ Rd8:d6 21. Qd3:d6 Qb7-c6
>>>22. Ra1-d1 Qc6:d6 23. Rd1:d6 Ne7-g6 24. Re1-e8+ Kc7 25. Rd6:a6
>>>Bf8-g7 26. Re8:h8 Bg7:h8 27. b4 Bh8-d4 28. c5 Ng6-e5 29. Ra6-d6
>>>Bd4-b2 30. Rd6-d5 Kc6 31. Rd5-d6+ Kc7 32. b5 Bb2-a3 33. Rd6-d5
>>>f6 34. h4 h5 35. g3 Ba3-b4 36. f4 Ne5-d7 37. c6 Nd7-b6 38. Rd5:h5
>>>Nb6-c4 39. Rh5-h7+
>>>
>>>{ This PGN file was generated by Geniss Axon XP , v650_atc, 16. July
>>>2003. }
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Djordje
>>
>>Since when is a rapid chess event 18 hours per move? :)
>>
>>Mine won't play Nd4. I don't see why Nd4 exd3 Re1 dxc2 (not Qa5) is better than
>>Bc4.
>>
>>Will
>
>
>Perhaps it was a slow rapid chess event :). Seriously, I have no idea why Axon
>produced that... It was a G/25 min event with 3 IMs and Geniss Axon, a double
>round robin. About Nd4: my gut feeling tells me that it is a great move, and I
>guess that Tal would go along with that. In any case it was a good move, I am
>sure and there are logical grounds for it: opening up the e-file, getting
>control of the c6 square, weak black pawn at f5, weaving a dangerous net around
>the black king, etc.
>
>Rgds,
>
>Djordje
I agree, my gut feeling is too that it is a good move.
So will this new Geniss Axon be available some time either as a commercial or
free?
Jonas
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