Author: Peter Berger
Date: 15:35:11 10/23/05
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On October 21, 2005 at 18:33:26, Uri Blass wrote:
>On October 21, 2005 at 17:52:22, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 2005 at 07:43:29, bryan whitby wrote:
>>
>>>The other week, I had contact with Martin Bryant author of Colossus Chess.
>>>Martin doesn’t live too far away from me so it was good to hear that he hasn’t
>>>abandoned chess altogether.
>>>He still programs in his very limited spare time and has actually got a Pocket
>>>PC GUI about 80% finished plus he’s working on a UCI chess engine at the moment.
>>
>>Would be great to have a ColossusChess for the Pocket PC. It will probably
>>always remain the program I have beaten most often in my life. Think I have
>>beaten it at least 200 times as a 14/15 year old beginner back in 1986 on C64
>>before I attended a chess club.
>>
>>Michael
>
>I doubt if the word beginner is correct for you at that time.
>
>I think that everyone who can beat strong human chess players from the following
>position with white is not a beginner.
>
>My guess is that most humans who play their first game in their life or their
>second game in their life cannot do it.
>
>[D]1nb1kbn1/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1
>
>When I was a child(6-7 years old) and learned chess from my father I lost few
>games against my father when I had the white pieces before winning and I also
>know based on experince that there are adults that I can beat with black from
>this position.
>
>Uri
A little computerchess experiment on this topic:
[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "Centrino1.6GHz-PIV3.2GHz"]
[Date "2005.10.22"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xadreco v.5.6, by Beco"]
[Black "Junior 9.0.0.3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "3000+3"]
[FEN "1nb1kbn1/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
{--------------
. n b . k b n .
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
R N B Q K B N R
white to play
--------------}
1. Na3 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qc4 a6 5. Nb1 b5 6. Qc5 e5 7. Qe3 d5 8.
Qg5 h6 9. Qd2 Nf6 10. Qe3 d4 11. Qf3 e4 12. Qf4 Be7 13. c3 Be6 14. Qc7 Bd7
15. cxd4 Bd8 16. Qf4 Nxd4 17. Qe5+ Ne6 18. Qb8 Nd4 19. Qe5+ Ne6 20. Qd6 a5
21. h4 Bc7 22. Qa6 b4 23. Qa8+ Nd8 24. Be3 Bc6 25. Qc8 Nd5 26. Bc5 Bd7 27.
Qa8 Bc6 28. Qc8 Bd7 29. Qa8 Bc6 30. Qa7 e3 31. Bxe3 Nxe3 32. Qxe3+ Ne6 33.
a3 Kf8 34. axb4 a4 35. Qc3 Be8 36. b5 Bd8 37. Rxa4 Bf6 38. Qc8 Nd8 39. Rb4
g6 40. h5 Kg7 41. hxg6 fxg6 42. b3 h5 43. g4 Kh6 44. Qa6 Kg7 45. gxh5 gxh5
46. Qa7+ Kg8 47. Rh3 Ne6 48. Re4 Bf7 49. Rf3 Nd8 50. Rxf6 Kg7 51. Rd6 Nb7
52. Qxb7 Kg8 53. Rf6 Be6 54. Rfxe6 h4 55. Re8#
{White mates} 1-0
[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "Centrino1.6GHz-PIV3.2GHz"]
[Date "2005.10.23"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Xadreco v.5.6, by Beco"]
[Black "Junior 9.0.0.3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "3000+3"]
[FEN "1nb1kbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQk - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
{--------------
. n b . k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
R N B Q K B N R
white to play
--------------}
1. Na3 c6 2. Rb1 d6 3. Nc4 Nf6 4. Nxd6+ exd6 5. a3 d5 6. a4 Bd6 7. h4 O-O
8. a5 Bg4 9. Ra1 d4 10. d3 Re8 11. c3 dxc3 12. bxc3 Nbd7 13. Rb1 b5 14.
axb6 axb6 15. Ra1 Nc5 16. Rb1 Ncd7 17. Ra1 Nc5 18. Bg5 Nd5 19. c4 Nb4 20.
Ra3 b5 21. cxb5 f6 22. d4 Ne6 23. Bc1 Nxd4 24. Rc3 Nxb5 25. Rb3 Bf5 26. e3
Nc2+ 27. Kd2 Bb4+ 28. Rxb4 Rd8+ 29. Rd4 Nbxd4 30. Bd3 Bxd3 31. exd4 Rxd4
32. Kc3 Bg6 33. Qe2 Rd3+ 34. Kxc2 Re3+ 35. Kb2 Rxe2+ 36. Nxe2 Bf7 37. Nc3
h5 38. Ka1 Be6 39. Bb2 Bc4 40. Kb1 Kf7 41. Ka1 Kg8 42. Nd1 Kf7 43. Bxf6
Kxf6 44. Ne3 Bg8 45. Rc1 Bd5 46. Rxc6+ Bxc6 47. Ka2 g5 48. hxg5+ Kxg5 49.
g3 Bf3 50. Ka1 h4 51. gxh4+ Kxh4 52. Ka2 Kg5 53. Ka1 Kh4 54. Kb2 Kg5 55.
Kc3 Kf4 56. Kd3 Be4+ 57. Kc3 Bf3 58. Kd3 Be4+ 59. Kd2 Bf3 60. Nc4 Bd5 61.
Nb2 Bg2 62. Nd3+ Kf3 63. Ke1 Bh1 64. Kf1 Bg2+ 65. Ke1 Bh1 66. Kf1 Bg2+ 67.
Kg1 Bh3 68. Nc5 Bc8 69. Kf1 Bh3+ 70. Kg1 Bc8 71. Kf1 Bh3+ 72. Kg1
{Draw by triple repetition} 1/2-1/2
[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "Centrino1.6GHz-PIV3.2GHz"]
[Date "2005.10.23"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xadreco v.5.6, by Beco"]
[Black "Junior 9.0.0.3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "3000+3"]
[FEN "rnb1kbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
{--------------
r n b . k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
R N B Q K B N R
white to play
--------------}
1. Na3 Nf6 2. Nb5 Na6 3. Nxa7 Rxa7 4. a3 d5 5. f3 e5 6. e3 Bd6 7. Bxa6 Rxa6
8. Rb1 O-O 9. Ra1 Bd7 10. Rb1 Bc8 11. Ra1 Bd7 12. b3 Re8 13. Rb1 d4 14.
exd4 exd4+ 15. Kf2 d3 16. cxd3 Bc5+ 17. Kf1 Bb5 18. Qc2 Ba7 19. Ne2 Rae6
20. Bb2 Rxe2 21. Bxf6 Rf2+ 22. Kg1 Rxd2+ 23. d4 Rxc2 24. a4 gxf6 25. h4
Ree2 26. axb5 Rxg2+ 27. Kf1 Bxd4 28. Ke1 Bc3+ 29. Kd1 Rgd2+
{White resigns} 0-1
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