Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 11:14:05 10/22/03
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On October 22, 2003 at 06:50:56, Tord Romstad wrote:
>For a long time, Phalanx has been my favorite sparring partner for my
>engine Gothmog, for two reasons. The first reason is that Phalanx is about
>the right strength. It is strong enough to beat my engine convincingly in
>long matches (the score usually ends up somewhere between 60% and 70% for
>Phalanx), but not strong enough to leave Gothmog without a chance in every
>single game. The second reason is that the styles of these two engines lead
>to some really spectacular games.
>
>The following blitz game (played at a time control of 4 minutes per game,
>with 2 seconds increment, on a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz) was played earlier today.
>White's wild sacrifical king hunt was almost certainly unsound, but black
>was unable to find a defence at this fast time control. The game is well
>worth playing through, in my very subjective opinion. :-)
>
>Do any other engines like the moves 15. Bc4?! and 18. Rd7!? ?
>
>[Event "Computer chess game"]
>[Site "aload.uio.no"]
>[Date "2003.10.22"]
>[Round "13"]
>[White "Gothmog 0.4.0a"]
>[Black "phalanx"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[TimeControl "240+2"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6
>8. Bxf6 gxf6 9. Na3 f5 10. Qh5 d5 11. O-O-O Bxa3 12. bxa3 Qa5 13. Nxd5 Be6
>14. Nf6+ Ke7 15. Bc4 Qxa3+ 16. Kb1 Qb4+ 17. Bb3 Kxf6 18. Rd7 Rhg8 19. exf5
>Bxd7 20. Qxf7+ Kg5 21. h4+ Kf4 22. g3+ Kg4 23. Qxd7 Rad8 24. Qxh7 Qe4 25.
>Rc1 Rgf8 26. Qg7+ Kh3 27. f6 Qf3 28. f7 Qxf2 29. c3 Qe2 30. Rc2 Qb5 31. Qg6
>Ne7 32. Qe6+ Kxg3 33. Qf6 Qd3 34. Qxe5+ Kf3 35. Qxe7 a5 36. Qf6+ Ke4 37.
>Ka1 Qf3 38. Qg6+ Kf4 39. Qg5+ Ke4 40. Rg2 Qxc3+ 41. Kb1 Qe1+ 42. Kb2 Kd3
>43. Bc2+ Kc4 44. Rg4+ Rd4 45. Bb3+ Kd3 46. Qb5+ Ke3 47. Qe5+ Kf2 48. Qxd4+
>Qe3 49. Rf4+ Kg2 50. Qxe3 Rxf7 51. Bd5+ Kh2 52. Qf2+ Kh3 53. Qg2#
>{Mate} 1-0
>
>Tord
Zappa plays Rd7 (its really White's only move, I think), but not Bc4. Do you
have singular(ish) extensions in Gothmog?
anthony
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