Hi,
comet made a draw against isichess.
Anmon won a very nice game against Nimzo2000b.
So the round looks this way:
Tournament: Millennium-Tournament
Results Mode Round No 7
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1. HIARCS 7.32, (14) - (12) CHESS SYSTEM TAL 2.03, ½:½
2. ZARKOV 45L, (17) - (2) SHREDDER4, 0:1
3. CHESSMASTER6000, (10) - (4) FRITZ6A, 1:0
4. JUNIOR6A, (11) - (15) CRAFTY 17.07,
5. MCHESS8, (3) - (1) REBEL-TIGER 12.0E, ½:½
6. REBEL-CENTURY 1.2, (5) - (7) GENIUS6.5, ½:½
7. WCHESS 2000, (16) - (8) DIEP2, 1:0
8. ANMON 5.06, (18) - (6) NIMZO2000B, 1:0
9. INSOMNIAC 0.61, (19) - (13) VIRTUAL CHESS2,
10. COMET B15, (20) - (9) ISICHESS PADERBORN, ½:½
Now i will play out junior vs. crafty. and if there is enough time today
)) also the last game in this round, insomniac versus virtual.btw: there is a guy spamming this newsgroup and others with wrong posts about my tournament. please ignore this idiot. he is ill.
so the standing now is:
Tournament: Millennium-Tournament
Place Name Sco MBch Buch Ws
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1-2 CHESS SYSTEM TAL 2.03, (12) 5.5 21 28½ 4
SHREDDER4, (2) 5.5 19 27½ 5
3 CHESSMASTER6000, (10) 5.0 17 24 4
4 ZARKOV 45L, (17) 4.5 19½ 27 3
5-6 JUNIOR6A, (11) 4.0(1) 20½ 29 3
HIARCS 7.32, (14) 4.0 20½ 28½ 3
7-11 REBEL-CENTURY 1.2, (5) 3.5 19 27 2
MCHESS8, (3) 3.5 18½ 26½ 2
WCHESS 2000, (16) 3.5 16 23½ 2
FRITZ6A, (4) 3.5 16 22½ 3
REBEL-TIGER 12.0E, (1) 3.5 16 22½ 1
12-14 GENIUS6.5, (7) 3.0 16 22½ 1
CRAFTY 17.07, (15) 3.0(1) 16 21½ 1
ANMON 5.06, (18) 3.0 12½ 19½ 3
15-17 VIRTUAL CHESS2, (13) 2.5(1) 15 21 1
NIMZO2000B, (6) 2.5 15 20½ 2
ISICHESS PADERBORN, (9) 2.5 13 18 1
18-19 DIEP2, (8) 2.0 19½ 27 2
INSOMNIAC 0.61, (19) 2.0(1) 13 18 1
20 COMET B15, (20) 1.5 14½ 21½ 1
Shredder seems to prepare to overtake leadership in this tournament. congratulations to stefan for his program. it fights for the 1st rank now.
one of the strength of shredder is, that it almost always plays very positional and save moves. it has natural pawn structures, plays very active (important) and has very deep selective peeks.
the search seems to be state of the art and in whole: it plays very very solid. no wonder that cstal (in a match harald faber did) failed to play good against shredder. shredder risks nothing. it plays like richard langs programs in solid-mode
) only much stronger. how to beat shredder ? where ? in endgame ? no. in middlegame ? no.and since detlef pordzik made a good opening book, even the opening is not so easy to fight out against shredder. if shredder would have a weakness somewhere ? maybe in tactics. maybe this is one major reason
that tiger was able (in my test games before paderborn championship) to get 50% against it. because tiger is very strong in tactics.
chessmaster and zarkov follow. this old program chessmaster is still one of the best things johann de koning ever produced. zarkov gets stronger and stronger the more john works at it (although it seems to be more and more toughter to make it stronger, the longer you work on it
) and junior of course, the new chessbase leader. where the hell is tiger ? ranked 11, hm. tiger plays to passive in the moment. hope christophe can change this. very sad for swiss-tournaments.you have a good program, but because it plays passive, it gives away points or makes draws. for longer matches this is different.
here the new games:
[Event "millennium-tournament 1999-2000"]
[Site "k6-400 40/120"]
[Date "2000.02.19"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Comet B15"]
[Black "Isichess Paderborn99"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "40/7200"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. cxd5 Nxd5
8. Bd3 Bb4 9. Bd2 Be7 10. a3 Bf6 11. O-O Bxd4 12. Nxd4 Nxd4 13. Qa4+ Nc6
14. Nxd5 Qxd5 15. Be4 Qxd2 16. Rfd1 Qxb2 17. Bxc6+ Kf8 18. Rab1 Qf6 19.
Bxb7 Bxb7 20. Qb4+ Kg8 21. Qxb7 Rf8 22. Qxa7 h6 23. Rb3 Kh7 24. Rf3 Ra8 25.
Qxa8 Rxa8 26. Rxf6 gxf6 27. Rd3 e5 28. Kf1 f5 29. Rg3 f4 30. Rc3 Kg6 31.
Ke2 f6 32. Rd3 h5 33. Rc3 h4 34. Kf1 f5 35. Ke2 Rb8 36. Rd3 e4 37. Rd6+ Kh5
38. a4 Rb3 39. a5 f3+ 40. gxf3 Rxf3 41. a6 Ra3 42. Kd2 Kg4 43. Rf6 f4 44.
Kc2 Kh3 45. Rxf4 Rxa6 46. Rxe4 Rh6 47. Kd3 Kxh2 48. Rg4 h3 49. f4 Kh1 50.
f5 h2 51. f6 Rxf6 52. Ke2 Rf8 53. Rg3 Rf5 54. Ke1 Rf4 55. Ke2 1/2-1/2
[Event "millennium-tournament 1999-2000"]
[Site "k6-400 40/120"]
[Date "2000.02.20"]
[Round "7"]
[White "AnMon 5.06"]
[Black "Nimzo2000b"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "40/7200"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 cxd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd1 exd5 7. Qxd5
Bd7 8. Nf3 Nf6 9. Qb3 Bc5 10. e3 Qe7 11. Be2 O-O-O 12. O-O g5 13. Na4 Ne4
14. Nxc5 Nxc5 15. Qc2 Kb8 16. b4 Nxb4 17. Qc4 Ne4 18. Ba3 a5 19. Rac1 Rc8
20. Qd4 f6 21. Bxb4 axb4 22. Bd3 Bf5 23. Qb6 Qd6 24. Qxd6+ Nxd6 25. Bxf5
Nxf5 26. Rb1 Rc2 27. Rxb4 Rxa2 28. h4 h6 29. h5 Nd6 30. Nd4 f5 31. Rfb1 Rh7
32. Rb6 Rd7 33. Rc1 Rc7 34. Nc6+ Ka8 35. Rd1 Nc8 36. Rb2 Ra6 37. Nb4 Rd6
38. Ra1+ Na7 39. Ra5 Rf7 40. Nd5 Kb8 41. Kh2 b5 42. Nc3 Rb7 43. Ne2 Rbb6
44. Nd4 Rd5 45. Kg3 Kb7 46. f4 g4 47. Rc2 Nc8 48. Rca2 Rc5 49. Kh4 Rd5 50.
R5a3 Rf6 51. Ra1 Rfd6 52. Rc3 Rd7 53. Ra5 Nd6 54. Rb3 Kb6 55. Ra8 Kc5 56.
Rb1 Kc4 57. Rc1+ Kb4 58. Rh8 Ka3 59. Rb1 Rxd4 60. exd4 Ka2 61. Re1 b4 62.
Rxh6 b3 63. Rh8 Nb5 64. Ra8+ Kb2 65. h6 Kc2 66. Kg5 Rb7 67. Kxf5 Nc3 68.
Kg6 Rb6+ 69. Kg7 Rb7+ 70. Kg8 Kd2 71. Rh1 Nd5 72. Rf8 Ne7+ 73. Kf7 Nf5+ 74.
Kg6 Nxh6 75. d5 Rb6+ 76. Rf6 Rb8 77. d6 Ng8 78. Re6 b2 79. f5 Kc3 80. d7
Rd8 81. Re8 Rxd7 82. Rxg8 Rb7 83. f6 b1=Q+ 84. Rxb1 Rxb1 85. f7 Rf1 86.
f8=Q Rxf8 87. Rxf8 1-0