Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 23:47:20 03/01/06
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On March 01, 2006 at 14:37:31, JNoomen wrote: >Hi all, > >Today I played a game with my Fidelity Champion Challenger - a good old >dedicated unit of the 1980's - against Gadget. Now what on earth is 'Gadget' I >hear you ask? Well, it is a PC program in basic, written by a friend of mine. Miauwwwwww :) On >a fast Pentium it can make 5 through 7 plies in a 20 minute countdown game. > >Gadget has played once in the Dutch Open tournament, where it scored 1 point out >of 11 games. My friend joked in the Dutch computer chess magazine, after an >unexpected win, that his main goal 'scoring 0 out of 11' was already not >possible anymore :-). > >Anyway, Gadget is a simple program, doesn't know Q-search and all the nice stuff >todays progs are equipped with. From time to time I let my old dedicated >machines play a game against Gadget to see who is best. Sofar Gadget is not >scoring badly: 4-2 against Mephisto III, around 3-3 against Fidelity Sensory 9 >and a 5-3 lead against the Conchess Ambassador. > >Before I forget: please don't ask me whether Gadget is going to be available, it >is not! My friend tried to convince the ChessBase people that his unique program >should be available for the masses, but alas: no reply..... They just won't recognize truly exceptional engines :)) > >So tonight Gadget had its first meeting with the Champion Sensory Challenger of >Fidelity. I love the old Spracklen Fidelity programs and it was my first game >with it. As I didn't know yet how to give it the white pieces, we decided Gadget >was going to play on the white side. Here is the game: > >Gadget PIV 2.4 GHz - Fidelity Champion Challenger >------------------------------------------------- >1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 >a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 > >Ah, a very topical line, even in 2006! Gadget's last move threw the Champion out >of book, after which it went for a 2 minute think. To my big surprise and horror >it came up with a real lemon: > >12... Qxf6?? > >Yuck! That's going to lose the queen in a couple of moves.... And indeed after >some hesitation (Black still has the troublesome Bb4+ that has to be calculated) >Gadget indeed found the winning move. > >13. Bg5! > >I vaguely considered to put my brandnew Champion on e-Bay right away, when to my >astonishment it found a way out! You don't believe it? You can't imagine that >black can save its queen? No, really? Take a look.... After only 30 seconds >thought the Champion came with the hammer blow: > >13... Qa7?!?!?!? > >Ugh! I don't think you have found that one, have you!? Instead of losing the >queen the Champ makes an illegal move to put it to safety. Bravo! > >Of course I stopped the game, laughing and laughing out loud. Poor Gadget didn't >accept the reply, so we rated the game 1-0. > >Now my question is of course: do other Champion Challengers repeat this move, or >is my version a bit rusty!? Replies from the great collectors at CCC are highly >welcome! > >Jeroen Ernst.
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