Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 13:06:36 06/15/99
Having a blast here at WCCC9, tons of interesting people, interesting games etc. So far, one of the features has been the superiority of the commercial programs. I would have expected the big iron to be putting in a better showing although its early days yet. The 3rd round was high drama. I'm told MChess made a huge blunder in an ending to go from like +3 to dead lost in a single move. Junior won against CilkChess after Cilk got its rook stuck terribly out of play in an ending. Junior had a crash towards the end of this game, but was restarted (the rules allow this) and continued without further problems. The star of the tournament so far has been Shredder. After beating Fritz this morning, it beat Rebel this afternoon in spectacular style. In a ending with 2 bishops vs 2 knights it played actively and sacrificed a pawn. This was followed by announcing mate in 31 (!) ending with BB vs N. In round 3, Chop played the Spanish program Eugen: [Event "WCCC99"] [Site "Paderborn"] [Date "1999.06.15"] [Round "3"] [White "LambChop"] [Black "EUGEN"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. dxc5 Qxc5 7. Be3 Qd5 8. Na3 a6 9. Nc4 Bg4 10. Qxd5 Nxd5 11. Nd4 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Nxd4 13. cxd4 Rc8 14. Bd3 g6 15. Kf2 Bg7 16. Rac1 Kd8 17. Na5 Rc7 18. Be4 b6 19. Nb7+ Kd7 20. Rxc7+ Kxc7 21. Rc1+ Kb8 22. Rc6 f5 23. Bd5 f4 24. Rxb6 Ka7 25. Rb3 e6 26. Be4 Rb8 27. Nc5 Rxb3 28. Nxb3 e5 29. d5 Kb6 30. h3 Bf5 31. Kf3 fxe3 32. Kxe3 Bd7 33. Na1 Kc5 34. Kd3 Bb5+ 35. Kc3 Bh6 36. b4+ Kd6 37. Nb3 Be3 38. Na5 Bd4+ 39. Kb3 Be2 40. Kc2 Bb5 41. Nb7+ Ke7 42. Bd3 Bb6 43. Bxb5 axb5 44. Kd3 Bf2 45. Na5 Kd6 46. Ke4 Be1 47. Nc6 Bc3 48. Na7 Bxb4 49. Nxb5+ 1-0 The opening went OK although I wasn't that happy with 8.Na3 (Bc4 looked better). The manouvre starting with Nd4 was surprising but turned out well - the e-pawn looked ugly but Chop thought that black must capture on d4 straightening whites pawns. This indeed happened, and chop made the decision to play cxd4 which surprised most observers. It turned out to be an excellent decision, with the newly opened c-file quickly becoming the most important feature of the position. The pawn up endgame presented technical difficulties although it was not defended in the best fashion. 33.Na1 was a pretty good move I think. 41...Ke7 was a bad mistake I think. This morning's game against Rebel was a bit disappointing. Chop was out of book at move 7 and immediately made a bad mistake. It was planning the right move (Nb6) but changed its mind at the last moment. Further searching and it was also change back to Nb6 ... thems the breaks I guess :-) I have this line in the book to a higher depth, but this particular move order was not covered... a nasty surprise. Chop sacced a piece in an attempt to russle up some compensation but this was quickly snuffed out by Rebel. After round 2 I made a quick hack to Chop to it will take extra thinking time for its first move out of book - a pretty standard thing to do which would have helped in this game. [Event "WCCC99"] [Site "Paderborn"] [Date "1999.06.15"] [Round "2"] [White "Rebel"] [Black "LambChop"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Be2 e6 6. h3 Bh5 7. c4 Nb4 8. Qa4+ N8c6 9. a3 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Nd3+ 11. Kd2 Qd7 12. Bxc6 bxc6 13. Kxd3 dxe5 14. Nd2 exd4 15. Re1 Be7 16. Re4 c5 17. Qxd7+ Kxd7 18. b4 Rab8 19. Nb3 Rhd8 20. Bd2 Ke8 21. Nxc5 Bxc5 22. bxc5 Rb2 23. Be1 Rd7 24. Rxd4 Re7 25. c6 e5 26. Rd5 f6 27. Rd1 a5 28. Ke4 Rb6 29. Bxa5 Rxc6 30. Bb4 Rxc4+ 31. Kd3 Rxb4 1-0
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