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Subject: First ever Gothic Chess Game (TSCPGothic vs Gothic Vortex 1.0)

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 03:31:11 01/10/04


[Event "Gothic Chess Internet Game"]
[Site "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"]
[Date "2004.01.10"]
[Round "1"]
[Fen "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/8/8/8/8/pppppppppp/RNBQCKABNR"]
[Setup "1"]
[White "TSCPGothic 0.1"]
[WhiteHardware "Intel Pentium III 800Mhz"]
[Black "Gothic Vortex 1.0"]
[BlackHardware "Intel Pentium IV 2.8Ghz"]
[Opening "Gothic Pirc"]
[Variation "Classical"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Plycount "74"]
[TimeControl "30 seconds against 10 seconds a move"]

1. e4 d6 2. Nh3 Nh6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg4 5. Ne2 Nc6 6. Nf2 Bi6 7. h3 e5 8. g4
exf4 9. Nxf4 Ae7 10. d3 Be5 11. Nd5 Ah4 12. Bxh6+ ixh6 13. i3 Ag3+ 14. Kg2 Aj6
15. j4 Ai7 16. c3 h5 17. d4 Bg7 18. i4 hxi4 19. hxi4 j5 20. ixj5 Axj5+ 21.
Kf3 h5 22. Ai2 hxg4+ 23. Nxg4 Ah4+ 24. Axh4 Qxh4 25. Bi2 Qi3+ 26. Kg2 Qxi2+ 27.
Kg3 0-0 28. Nf4 Cf6 29. Cg2 Qxg4+ 30. Qxg4 Cxg4+ 31. Kf3 Ci3+ 32. Kf2 Cf3+
33. Ke2 Cxf4+ 34. Kd2 Cxg2+ 35. Kc1 Rh2 36. j5 Bh6+ 37. Kb1 Cxb2# 0-1

So we agreed to compensate the hardware to play 30 seconds versus 10 seconds.

Gothic Vortex got all the time 2 or 3 ply deeper as TSCPGothic.
This is mainly because TSCPGothic doesn't has hashtables at the moment.

TSCPGothic also has no mobility currently and this caused that it placed its
pieces not so optimal.

The game lasted 37 moves ... not a bad achievement after all. I liked playing
this game. It is complexer as chess and I hope that I can learn a bit from it
that I can use for Nullmover.

I think that strong chessplayers and strong chessprogram will also play strong
Gothic Chess if right tuned. The problem is only that all tuning parameters are
different.

All the best!

Michel




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