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14. May 2005, 18:37:34
Chessmaster1000 
Subject: A small tourney! Me,Smirf and G.V.......
I played a small tournament with myself, Smirf BC-056 and Gothic Vortex 1.0.9. Each player played 2 games (1 with White, one with Black) against each other. I won both 4 games. Yeah............!
Time control was 30 seconds per move, with 64 MB hash for the engines...........

1)Me-G.V 1-0
I had a nice attack as always with many surprising sacrifices for G.V, but the damn computer resisted amazingly and managed to hold with an equal position(i think) until move 33. Then it had only one line that would hold (an easy to see-33...Qh7) but it played horribly the moves 33,34,35 and lost immediatelly............!
After the game i could not immediatelly reproduce 33...Qd8? It played the correct Qh7 2 times, then the third time, it choosed e6 and after a computer start-up it choosed the Qd8 again ?!?!?!? And when i play from move 30 all the moves, it always plays the Qd8 move.......


2)G.V-Smirf 1-0
After some logical opening Pawn and Knight moves by both players, GV played an unorthodox Knight move(7.Ni5) and Smirf replied badly (7...Bxc3?). After some developing moves in an unusual position, Smirf saw a big advantage after 18...Bxd3? but it was a huge mistake. After white castled game was already over..........G.V finished the game with a nice attack.......!


3)Smirf-Me 0-1
I gave a Pawn, Smirf's development has become slow, i gave a Rook and a Bishop for an attack and mated some moves later........I have the impression, in fact i'm sure, that Smirf could win this game.....But let me intrude in its position and win.........


4)G.V-Me 0-1
I've managed to create an invisible(for G.V) attack for the white King, which G.V allowed me to make after a long time (after the fix of the Chancellor-bug, creating such positions was very difficult)....I had to praise G.V for its move 21.Ag1! and not taking the b6-Pawn, because it felt the danger (Unfortunatelly the next 2 moves was Be3 and Bxb6 taking the Pawn and probably that was the critical mistakes)....The question of course is if Ag1 could save the game. The position is already too difficult to hold.....


5)Me-Smirf 1-0
Smirf played as always(it's much more active with Pawns and not only, at the opening from G.V) the kind of moves i hate. Pawn-attacking moves, challenging me for the center and not giving me space, and not afraid to leave hanging pieces. My nightmare......! Some strange moves by me giving 3 Pawns and then a Rook, that Smirf took instead of accepting the 3 Pawns and castling safely. Then a crazy tactical position arised. Giving my last Rook i had a nice attack but the win was not obvious....But the final winning combination was startling........! "27.Cf1! , 28.Cf5!! , 30.Nf6! was some of the good moves......."

In this game also occured the following:
I would put this to my notes for Reinhard about Smirf, but here is anyway:
In the 6th move and after my c3 Smirf had a bad(buggy?) reaction again. The position is this and Smirf's evaluation was the following......:

r1bqckab1r/pp2pp1ppp/2np2pn2/
2p7/4PP4/2P3PP1N/PP1P4PP/RNBQCKAB1R b KQkq - 0 6
-----------------------------------------
End of thinking (mate found)
00:00.0 (06.08+) +M~254 6...Be6 (Af6)
-----------------------------------------



6)Smirf-G.V 1/2-1/2
G.V was out of book in its second only move(smirf doesn't have a book). After some unorthodox moves again by both players, i can really say that Smirf outplayed G.V at the opening in this position and reached a very favorable position. After 18...Kg7 i had the impression that Smirf would convert this winning position into a win. And at move 34 it was clear that Smirf would be able to win although the position was VERY difficult to do it. It needed a strategic plan to do it. To bring the Rooks into action and prevent the Archbishop from breaking through into white's King's position. But Smirf played the awuful Bxf4? instead of gxf4 and allowed G.V a perpetual check.........

In this game also occured the following again:
I would put this to my notes for Reinhard about Smirf, but here is anyway:
In the 33th move and after GV's 32...Ad7 Smirf had a bad(buggy?) reaction again. The position is this and Smirf's evaluation was the following......:

7b1r/p1pa2kppp/2N7/6p3/1P2P5/
3P2PP2/2KB1P3P/3R3R2 w - - 1 33
-----------------------------------------
En
d of thinking (mate found)
00:00.0 (08.03+) +M~254 33.Nxa7 (b5)
-----------------------------------------




Crosstable (1=win , 0=loss , ½=draw).........:

  • Player  Me  G.V  Smirf  Total
    -----------------------------------
  • Me      --     11     11       4.0
  • G.V     00     --     1½      1.5
  • Smirf   00     0½     --       0.5
    -----------------------------------

    The games............:

    [Event "SmirfGUI Computerchess Game"]
    [Site "?"]
    [Date "????.??.??"]
    [Round "?"]
    [White "George Tsavdaris"]
    [Black "Gothic Vortex"]
    [Result "1-0"]
    [Annotator "George Tsavdaris"]
    [SetUp "1"]
    [FEN "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNB
    QCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

    1.f4 Nh6 2.d4 d5 3.g3 Nc6 4.c3 g6 5.h3 Bg7 6.Nj3 Af6 7.Ah2 O-O 8.Bf3 Nf5 9.g4
    Nh4 10.e3 Nxi2 11.Cg2 j6 12.Bd2 Nj4 13.Be1 Nxh3 14.Bxj6 ixj6 15.g5 Ag8 16.Ri1+
    Nxi1 17.Cxi1+ Kj8 18.Qe1 Ai7 19.Ai4 Ri8 20.Axj6 Aj5+ 21.Ai4 Bh3+ 22.Ke2 Bh8
    23.Axj5 Bxj5 24.Ni5 Cg7 25.Cj3 Ri6 26.Cxj5+ Rj6 27.Ch4 Qg8 28.Qh1 Rxj2+ 29.Kd1
    Bi7 30.Nxh7+ Ki8 31.Qi1 Cxh7 32.Qxj2 Cxh4 33.Qxh4 Qd8 34.Nd2 Qd7 35.Bg4 Qd6
    36.Kc2 Rh8 37.Qj4 Rh5 38.Bxh5 Nb4+ 39.cxb4 Qc6+ 40.Kb3 gxh5 41.Qf8+ Kj7 42.Rj1+
    1-0

    [Event "SmirfGUI Computerchess Game"]
    [Site "?"]
    [Date "????.??.??"]
    [Round "?"]
    [White "Gothic Vortex"]
    [Black "Smirf"]
    [Result "1-0"]
    [Annotator "George Tsavdaris"]
    [SetUp "1"]
    [FEN "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNB
    QCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

    1.c4 g6 2.Nh3 c5 3.Nc3 h5 4.d3 Nh6 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bd5 d6 7.Ni5 Bxc3 8.bxc3 Af6
    9.Bxh6+ ixh6 10.Qc1 Kg7 11.Nh3 Ci8 12.Nj4 Qa5 13.Cc2 Bf5 14.Ca3 Qc7 15.Rb1 Qc8
    16.Qb2 Rb8 17.h3 Ae5 18.Ai3 Bxd3 19.f4 Bxb1 20.fxe5 Bf5 21.exd6 exd6 22.O-O Qd7
    23.Rf1 Qc8 24.Nxh5+ gxh5 25.Axh5+ Kh7 26.g4 Bg6 27.Rxf7+ Bxf7 28.Qc2+ Kg8
    29.Qg6+ Kh8 30.Af6+ Ki7 31.Qh7+ Kj6 32.Ah4+ Ci5 33.Qxh6# 1-0

    [Event "SmirfGUI Computerchess Game"]
    [Site "?"]
    [Date "????.??.??"]
    [Round "?"]
    [White "Smirf"]
    [Black "George Tsavdaris"]
    [Result "0-1"]
    [Annotator "George Tsavdaris"]
    [SetUp "1"]
    [FEN "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNB
    QCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

    1.d3 d5 2.h4 g6 3.g3 Nj6 4.c3 c6 5.Nh3 h6 6.Qa4 Ah7 7.Be3 Nd7 8.Bxa7 Nf6 9.Bf3
    Nfh5 10.Qa3 Ni4 11.Bxh5 gxh5 12.Nd2 Cg7 13.Cf3 Bg4 14.Cf4 Af5 15.Cg2 Qc7
    16.O-O-O b5 17.Bb6 Rxa3 18.Bxc7 Rxa2 19.Kb1 Ce8 20.Kxa2 Ca8+ 21.Kb1 Bxc3
    22.bxc3 Ca3+ 23.Kb2 Ca4+ 24.Kb3 Ae6 25.Rc1 Ac5+ 26.Kc2 Ca2+ 27.Kd1 Aa4+ 28.Nb3
    Axb3+ 29.Rc2 Ca1# 0-1

    [Event "SmirfGUI Computerchess Game"]
    [Site "?"]
    [Date "????.??.??"]
    [Round "?"]
    [White "Gothic Vortex"]
    [Black "George Tsavdaris"]
    [Result "0-1"]
    [Annotator "George Tsavdaris"]
    [SetUp "1"]
    [FEN "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNB
    QCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

    1.f4 f5 2.Nh3 g6 3.Nc3 c6 4.g3 d5 5.Ng5 h6 6.Nh3 b6 7.Bf3 d4 8.Nb5 a6 9.Na3 Bf6
    10.Af2 Cg7 11.O-O Nj6 12.d3 Ah7 13.Nc4 i5 14.e4 e6 15.e5 Be7 16.j3 Ri8 17.Nd6
    Aj5 18.Nxc8 Qxc8 19.Axd4 i4 20.jxi4 Rxi4 21.Ag1 Ci7 22.Kj1 Kf7 23.Be3 Qi8
    24.Bxb6 Rxi2 25.Axi2 Ai3+ 26.Ki1 Aj2+ 27.Kj1 Cj5 28.Nj4 Qxi2+ 29.Kxi2 Cxj4+
    30.Kj1 Ah3# 0-1

    [Event "SmirfGUI Computerchess Game"]
    [Site "?"]
    [Date "????.??.??"]
    [Round "?"]
    [White "George Tsavdaris"]
    [Black "Smirf"]
    [Result "1-0"]
    [Annotator "George Tsavdaris"]
    [SetUp "1"]
    [FEN "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNB
    QCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

    1.f4 d6 2.Nj3 c5 3.e4 Nh6 4.g3 Nc6 5.h3 g6 6.c3 Be6 7.Ah2 Qa5 8.b3 j5 9.Bf3 f5
    10.d3 Bxb3 11.Qe2 fxe4 12.Bxe4 Cc7 13.Bd2 Qa4 14.O-O Bxa2 15.f5 Nxf5 16.Rf1 Ab3
    17.Ag4 Axa1 18.Ni5 e6 19.Bxf5 exf5 20.Rxf5+ gxf5 21.Axf5 Kg8 22.Qh5 Ne5 23.Nxh7
    Rf8 24.Nxf8 Cg7 25.Ah7+ Cxh7 26.Nxh7 Ri8 27.Cf1 Bf7 28.Cf5 Bg7 29.Ce7+ Kh8
    30.Nf6+ Bh6 31.Bxh6 Qd1+ 32.Qxd1 ixh6 33.Qh5 Ki7 34.Qxf7+ Nxf7 35.Cxf7+ Kj6
    36.Nh5+ Ki6 37.Cg7+ Ki5 38.j4# 1-0

    [Event "SmirfGUI Computerchess Game"]
    [Site "?"]
    [Date "????.??.??"]
    [Round "?"]
    [White "Smirf"]
    [Black "Gothic Vortex"]
    [Result "1/2-1/2"]
    [Annotator "George Tsavdaris"]
    [SetUp "1"]
    [FEN "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNB
    QCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

    1.g3 d5 2.Na3 Nh6 3.c4 dxc4 4.Nxc4 Nc6 5.d3 g6 6.Bxc6 bxc6 7.h4 Ni4 8.Nh3 Bxh3+
    9.ixh3 Qd7 10.Rh1 Nh6 11.Af3 Cd8 12.Qa4 Ce6 13.Na5 Cc5 14.Qb4 Ca6 15.Qb7 Qc8
    16.Qxc8+ Rxc8 17.Axc6 Rb8 18.Ad7+ Kg7 19.Bf4 f6 20.Cc2 Rd8 21.Ac6 Rd5 22.b4 Af7
    23.Axe7 g5 24.hxg5 fxg5 25.Bd2 Ae6 26.O-O-O Nf5 27.Axd5 Axd5 28.e4 Nd4 29.Cxd4
    Axa2+ 30.Kc2 Ae6 31.Cc6 Cxc6+ 32.Nxc6 Ad7 33.Nxa7 Kg6 34.f4 gxf4 35.Bxf4 Aa4+
    36.Kb1 Ac3+ 37.Kc2 Aa4+ 38.Kb1 Ac3+ 39.Kc1 Ab2+ 40.Kd2 Ac3+ 41.Kc1 Ab2+ 42.Kd2
    Ac3+ 43.Kc1 1/2-1/2

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