Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:21:39 02/04/99
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On February 03, 1999 at 18:31:05, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >We all like to read about how computer programs compare with humans being eager >to see if our program is able to compete with grandmasters, international >masters, FIDE masters. This year's 24e Gd Open Aubervilliers 1999 (rapid chess, >12 rounds) had two PC programs participating: Frederic Louguet's Chess Wizard >and Franck Zibi's Zchess (version 1.20 -- soon to appear on this web page). Both >did quite well. Franck Zibi in particular was rather enthusiastic and excited as >this was his program's debut agains humans. The apparently super-strong program >Chess Wizard by Frederic Louget did superbly by scoring 10/12 and placing 5th >ex-aequo, performing at an incredible ELO 2656!! while Zchess finished the >tournament very honourably scoring 9/12 and performing at a solid 2312. On its >way to 10/12, Chess Wizard drew three GMs : Minasian (2620), Asrian (2600) and >Akopian (2655 - this last one without even playing a single move ! on Akopian's >proposition), and beat GM Hamdouchi (2555)! I will soon post some photos from >this strong tournament. > >The programs played some quite interesting games. One game I'd like to single >out as it points at a weakness in most current programs: > >[Event "Aubervilliers Tournament 1999"] > >[Site "Aubervilliers"] > >[Date "1999.01.31"] > >[Round "7"] > >[White "Andrei SHCHEKACHEV"] > >[Black "ZChess 1.2"] > >[Result "1-0"] > >[WhiteElo "2608"] > >[BlackElo "?"] > >[TimeControl "1500"] > >1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 Qb6 > >7. Nc3 Qb4 8. O-O Bxc3 9. a3 Qa5 10. bxc3 Qxc3 11. Rb1 Qa5 > >12. Bb2 f6 13. e5 f5 14. e6 Nf6 15. Qc1 b6 16. Re1 O-O 17. Qh6 c4 > >18. dxc4 Bxe6 19. Rxe6 Rf7 20. Ng5 Rd8 1-0 > >Test your program and see if it will capture the White Knight on move 9...Bxc3. >Of the current programs that Franck Zibi tested on this position, only Zarkov 5 >refrained from capturing, playing the cool 9.Nf6!! (Programs tested: Wchess >2000, Crafty 16.0, Chess Genius 6, Fritz 5) Something is badly mangled here. 9. Nf6 is illegal. Black played Bxc3 on move 8 of the game, which I can't reproduce here with Crafty, so I am not sure which move you are looking at. Can you check this and point out exactly what you are looking at?
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