World Computer Chess Championship 2008 Hiarcs wins!

[Hans van der Zijden]

Hello everybody, this is my first post, so let me introduce myself: I am Hans van der Zijden and I am the Rybka operator. I made a picture of the Rybka mate in 1942 moves, as you can see on this site, but there is some misunderstanding about it. It baffled me also at first site, but after every move the score went up by 2. Then I realised it must have something to do with the plydepth. I assume that the mate score is 2000 and the number of plies away from mate is subtracted from that. So in the picture it is I think a mate in (2000-1942)/2=29 moves. Obviously coming from tablebases.

[Jens]

Ty Harvey for your newsservice.

If it wasnt for the newsfeed that you and the other "privateers" and participants do, we wouldnt know anything about the tournament because the official icga information policy is... err... is there any??

Also i am happy to see that you guys are havin a good time, despite the many problems and shortcomings in the organisation of this event.

Making a computer games (!!!!) tournament without stable internetconnection is... already bad. Making it without even the slightest preparation so that you (harvey) have to use your private macbook as router so that peeps can play... well.... is.... just another example of total failure of the icga organisation comitee (if there is/ was any, really).

I think the question is what the heck Levy and the other "Mister wannabe important" have been doing except smiling into the camera... because they certainly did NOT do a proper job of organizing and setting up a great tournament.



Cheers

[Soren Riis]

Thanks for the nice coverage, and congratulations with with Hiarcs results. Like last year it looks like Hiarcs will do very well and must be among the favorites to give Rybka a run for her life. Not easy if Rybka like rumored is running on 40 cores!

[Hans van der Zijden]

Monday 29:
The previous evening we held a playermeeting, in which it was decided to try to play in the hotel. Harvey would try to make his Mac function as a wireless router. When it seemed not to work, I decided to go back to my room. Next day I got into the bus and 1 minute before departure someone asked me if I shouldn't be playing in the hotel. Apparantly Harvey made it work after all and nobody told me. The things they try to prevent Rybka from winning the tournament. There was a beautiful room available where 10 programs had more than enough room. And more important; not one internetcrash in 2 rounds. And a beautiful view at the lake and smog. In the lunchbreak I ordered a fruitsalad. It consisted of 2 types of melon and some tomato's. There are some strange things going on with the food. They don't know bread, but for us europeans they made
something looking like bread. Too bad it all tastes sweet. At breakfast the
orange and pineapplejuice are hot. If you order a juice in the hotel you get a whole liter. It took some days before the beer was finally cold enough to the taste of a foreigner. Stefan (Shredder) and I ordered a coke and got 1½ liter both. And I expect to encounter some more funny things the next days. Now that we played in the hotel, I finally had the time to visit the masseuse. It was a sort of chinese torture, but the doctor says I am able to play tomorrow.

[Kemuri]

I'm sure this has been discussed at length before, but (aside from obvious things like the phone) why don't they give every program the same hardware - or at least an upper limit on the spec. With some programs running on dual core, and others on 40 - the results are somewhat meaningless!!

(Though I'm still cheering for Hiarcs!)

[IA]

It is a risk for Rybka to lose with 40 cores, ultimately it was gaining Hiarcs and with only 8 cores and this one is the best advertising for Hiarcs to win with only 8 cores.

¡¡ Much intelligence costs (8 cores) that brute force (40 cores) !!


Regards to the magnificent equipment "team" of HIARCS

[Lukas]

Thanks for the nice coverage, and congratulations with with Hiarcs results. Like last year it looks like Hiarcs will do very well and must be among the favorites to give Rybka a run for her life. Not easy if Rybka like rumored is running on 40 cores!

The rumors are true. Rybka is running on 5 8 core computers:
a 3.8 GHz Skulltrail
a 4.2 GHz Skulltrail
a 3.4 GHz 2x Xeon X5460
a 3.0 GHz 2x Xeon E5430
a 3.0 GHz 2x Xeon X5365 - using the mainboard and memory modules of that computer that won WCCC 2007 in Amsterdam

Best regards,
Lukas

[Sebastian Boehme]

Hey folks,

this time we have a look into the Chinese culture.

This first picture is gonna show you Harvey's new favourite Chinese meal, from the Hotel menu, (of course this is only a rumour). It's called fried Ox penis....



Now something about German card games. Here the crowd is playing the Chinese card game "Bang" in a pub. Harvey won the first round, without knowing any further rules he told me.



Oh and before I forget. It seems that now even at the WCCC knight odds are well known. Hans here is giving the mobile phone knight odds while waiting for Jonny's next move in Rybka's game from round 4.



Hope you like the visual coverage. More to come, I assume.

Regards,
Sebi

[mclane]

Ty Harvey for your newsservice.

If it wasnt for the newsfeed that you and the other "privateers" and participants do, we wouldnt know anything about the tournament because the official icga information policy is... err... is there any??

Also i am happy to see that you guys are havin a good time, despite the many problems and shortcomings in the organisation of this event.

Making a computer games (!!!!) tournament without stable internetconnection is... already bad. Making it without even the slightest preparation so that you (harvey) have to use your private macbook as router so that peeps can play... well.... is.... just another example of total failure of the icga organisation comitee (if there is/ was any, really).

I think the question is what the heck Levy and the other "Mister wannabe important" have been doing except smiling into the camera... because they certainly did NOT do a proper job of organizing and setting up a great tournament.



Cheers

the BOARD of the ICGA is sitting there to represent the ICGA.
thats their function. its not their function to organise anything.
sad IMO, but this is how it works.

the participants pay the fee, the board gets financed and can represent
themselves
the winner gets a title so the winner can make better business.
thats the rules of the game.

[Dark Horse]

which one's Harvey ?

[Watchman]

Harvey would try to make his Mac function as a wireless router. Apparantly Harvey made it work after all...

We heard it was this guy that came up with the wireless solution...

[Team-oh]

Hi all,

here is the game ClusterToga vs. The Baron (round 5):

[Event "WCCC 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.10.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "ClusterToga"]
[Black "The Baron"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C43"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1. e4 {[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 2. Nf3 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 3. d4 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Nxe4 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 4. Bd3 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 5. Nxe5 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 6. Nxd7 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Bxd7 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 7. O-O {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Bd6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 8. c4 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} c6 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 9. cxd5 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} cxd5 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 10. Nc3 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Nxc3 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 11. bxc3 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:09]} 12. Qh5 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} g6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 13. Qxd5 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 14. Bh6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Rfe8 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 15. h3 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Be6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 16. Qg5 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Qxc3 {[%emt 0:02:35]} 17. Rfd1 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Qxd4 {[%emt 0:02:45]} 18. Bxg6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Qe5 {[%emt 0:01:58]} 19. Rxd6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Qxa1+ {[%emt 0:03:06]} 20. Bb1+ {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} Kh8 {[%emt 0:03:40]} 21. Kh2 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} a6 {[%emt 0:07:00]} 22. Qh4 {
[%eval 759,21] [%emt 0:07:11]} Qe5+ {(f5) [%emt 0:00:13]} 23. f4 {
[%eval 1140,24] [%emt 0:05:37]} Qa1 {[%emt 0:00:54]} 24. Rd1 {
[%eval 1123,22] [%emt 0:04:20]} f5 {(Rg8) [%emt 0:03:42]} 25. Bxf5 {
[%eval 1175,21] [%emt 0:03:15]} Qb2 {[%emt 0:02:57]} 26. Bg5 {
[%eval 2199,21] [%emt 0:02:46]} Bxf5 {[%emt 0:02:36]} 27. Bf6+ {
[%eval 2264,21] [%emt 0:00:00]} Qxf6 {[%emt 0:02:02]} 28. Qxf6+ {
[%eval 2175,18] [%emt 0:00:09]} Kg8 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 29. Qxf5 {
[%eval 2238,18] [%emt 0:01:23]} Re7 {[%emt 0:00:29]} 1-0

[Watchman]

Mobile Chess v. Deep Junior 0 - 1

[Event "WCCC Beijing"]
[Site "."]
[Date "2008.10.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Mobile"]
[Black "Deep Junior"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E99"]
[Annotator ",."]
[PlyCount "68"]
[TimeControl "60/5400:0/0:1500"]

{1536MB, Junior11.ctg, E3D59B6A27D64FB} 1. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 2. c4 {[%emt 0:00:15]} g6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 3. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:12]} Bg7 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 4. e4 {(d4) [%emt 0:00:15]} d6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 5. d4 {[%emt 0:00:13]} O-O {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 6. Be2 {[%emt 0:00:11]} e5 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 7. O-O {[%emt 0:00:13]} Nc6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 8. d5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} Ne7 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 9. Ne1 {(Nd2) [%emt 0:00:18]} Nd7 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 10. Nd3 {(Be3) [%emt 0:00:13]} f5 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 11. Bd2 {[%emt 0:00:14]} Nf6 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:01]} 12. f3 {[%emt 0:00:14]} f4 {
[%eval 0,0] [%emt 0:00:00]} 13. c5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} c6 {
[%eval 21,21] [%emt 0:01:52]} 14. dxc6 {[%emt 0:00:43]} Nxc6 {
[%eval 0,20] [%emt 0:01:57]} 15. Nb5 {(Be1) [%emt 0:00:39]} dxc5 {
[%eval -37,18] [%emt 0:00:43]} 16. Qb3+ {(Rc1) [%emt 0:03:25]} Kh8 {
[%eval -88,18] [%emt 0:01:24]} 17. Bc3 {(Rfc1) [%emt 0:00:40]} a6 {
[%eval -157,19] [%emt 0:00:37]} 18. Na3 {[%emt 0:00:59]} b5 {
[%eval -192,21] [%emt 0:01:08]} 19. Nxe5 {[%emt 0:02:02]} Nd4 {
[%eval -213,22] [%emt 0:00:01]} 20. Qd1 {[%emt 0:01:27]} Nxe2+ {
[%eval -218,22] [%emt 0:02:08]} 21. Qxe2 {[%emt 0:01:17]} b4 {
[%eval -222,22] [%emt 0:00:29]} 22. Rfd1 {(Rad1) [%emt 0:01:21]} Qc7 {
[%eval -226,22] [%emt 0:02:57]} 23. Bxb4 {(Be1) [%emt 0:01:22]} cxb4 {
[%eval -315,21] [%emt 0:02:08]} 24. Nac4 {[%emt 0:00:54]} Nh5 {
[%eval -347,21] [%emt 0:01:30]} 25. Ng4 {[%emt 0:01:13]} Bxg4 {
[%eval -364,22] [%emt 0:02:13]} 26. fxg4 {[%emt 0:00:38]} f3 {
[%eval -391,22] [%emt 0:02:09]} 27. gxf3 {[%emt 0:01:06]} Nf4 {
[%eval -407,21] [%emt 0:00:04]} 28. Qf1 {[%emt 0:00:56]} Rac8 {
[%eval -461,22] [%emt 0:02:06]} 29. Nd6 {[%emt 0:01:02]} Qa7+ {
[%eval -681,22] [%emt 0:03:35]} 30. Kh1 {[%emt 0:00:45]} Rc2 {
[%eval -724,22] [%emt 0:02:19]} 31. Nc4 {[%emt 0:00:38]} Rf2 {
[%eval -767,21] [%emt 0:00:54]} 32. Qe1 {[%emt 0:00:40]} Rxf3 {
[%eval -868,22] [%emt 0:08:48]} 33. Rd6 {(Na5) [%emt 0:01:02]} Qf7 {
[%eval -912,18] [%emt 0:01:16]} 34. Rc6 {(Nd2) [%emt 0:01:13]} Nd3 {
[%eval -32756,18] [%emt 0:00:29]} 0-1

[Harvey Williamson]

R5 Hiarcs beats Sjeng

[Event "WCCC 2008 R5"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.10.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Deep Sjeng"]
[Black "HiarcsX"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D10"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "2008.??.??"]
[TimeControl "60/840:0/0:1500"]

{256MB, HARVEYWILLID19E} 1. d4 {0} d5 {B/0 0} 2. c4 {12} c6 {B/0 0} 3. Nc3 {9}
dxc4 {B/0 0} 4. e4 {10} b5 {B/0 0} 5. a4 {14} b4 {B/0 0} 6. Na2 {12} Nf6 {B/0 0
} 7. e5 {8} Nd5 {B/0 0} 8. Bxc4 {17} e6 {B/0 0} 9. Nf3 {11} a5 {B/0 0} 10. Be3
{170} Be7 {0.25/18 257} 11. O-O {72} Bb7 {0.21/18 134} 12. Nc1 {201} Nd7 {
0.14/19 1} 13. Nd3 {(Nb3) 101} Nxe3 {0.00/19 208} 14. fxe3 {101} O-O {
-0.03/19 1} 15. Rc1 {143} c5 {0.00/19 1} 16. Bb5 {130} cxd4 {-0.10/19 1} 17.
Nxd4 {(exd4) 156} Nb6 {-0.12/18 144} 18. Qe2 {110} Rc8 {-0.20/18 1} 19. Rxc8 {
107} Nxc8 {-0.37/18 112} 20. Qf2 {148} Nb6 {-0.43/19 1} 21. Rc1 {(Nf4) 111} Bg5
{-0.64/18 156} 22. Kh1 {(Nf4) 183} Nd5 {-0.78/19 187} 23. Nf4 {46} Qb6 {
-0.78/19 142} 24. Nxd5 {134} Bxd5 {-0.71/19 1} 25. Qg3 {(b3) 97} Bh6 {
-0.98/19 197} 26. Be2 {326} Rd8 {-1.17/20 1} 27. Rd1 {116} g6 {-1.35/20 94} 28.
b3 {174} Bg7 {-1.55/20 1} 29. h3 {164} Qc7 {-1.85/20 1} 30. Qh4 {(Nb5) 173} Rf8
{-2.32/19 152} 31. e4 {107} Ba8 {-2.39/20 40} 32. Nf3 {(Bd3) 187} Qc2 {
-2.59/20 162} 33. Nd4 {12} Qxe4 {-2.69/22 148} 34. Qxe4 {34} Bxe4 {-2.68/25 118
} 35. Bf3 {30} Rd8 {-2.64/25 300} 36. Bxe4 {115} Bxe5 {-2.65/25 1} 37. Kg1 {
(Bd3) 119} Bxd4+ {-2.85/23 262} 38. Kf1 {10} e5 {-2.90/24 249} 39. Ke2 {220} f5
{-2.86/23 1} 40. Bd3 {85} Rc8 {-2.89/24 216} 41. g4 {12} Rf8 {-2.89/23 232} 42.
Rc1 {(Bb5) 9} e4 {-3.15/20 185} 43. Bb5 {(Ba6) 7} f4 {-3.79/22 216} 44. Rd1 {
(Kf1) 107} f3+ {-4.12/23 293} 45. Kf1 {6} Ba7 {-4.11/24 284} 46. Rd7 {182} Bc5
{-4.11/24 1} 47. Rd5 {(Bc4+) 89} Rc8 {-4.89/22 535} 48. Bc4 {10} Kg7 {
-4.89/21 151} 49. g5 {(h4) 8} Rc7 {-4.86/23 301} 50. Re5 {(Rd8) 448} e3 {
-5.10/22 124} 51. Re8 {9} h6 {-5.10/22 73} 52. Bd5 {29} f2 {-5.10/21 72} 53.
gxh6+ {(Be6) 51} Kxh6 {-5.50/23 81} 54. Bc4 {28} Rd7 55. Be2 {(Kg2) 0} Rd2 {
-6.36/23 146} 56. h4 {(Re5) 15} Rb2 {-7.92/21 193} 57. Bc4 {(Bd1) 489} Rb1+ {
-11.82/21 146} 0-1

[Harvey Williamson]

R5 Rybka beats Falcon

(50) Falcon - Rybka 3 [B48]

95'/60+30', 01.10.2008

319MB, BeijingB.ctg 1.e4 c5 B/0 0 2.Nf3 e6 B/0 0 3.d4 cxd4 B/0 0 4.Nxd4 a6 B/0 0 5.Bd3 Qc7 B/0 0 6.Nc3 Nc6 B/0 0 7.Be3 Nf6 B/0 0 8.0–0 Ne5 B/0 0 9.h3 Bc5 B/0 0 10.Kh1 d6 B/0 0 11.f4 Ng6 B/0 0 12.Qe1 0–0 B/0 0 13.Nf3 Bxe3 -0.17/21 4:52 14.Qxe3 e5 -0.15/22 4:49 15.f5 Nf4 -0.16/21 1:30 16.g3 Nxd3 -0.20/22 3:33 17.cxd3 b5 -0.20/21 3:32 18.Rfc1 Qe7 -0.29/21 4:27 19.Rc2 d5 -0.33/22 5:18 20.Nxd5 Nxd5 -0.44/18 35 21.exd5 f6 -0.41/21 1:28 22.Qe4 Qf7 -0.77/20 1:23 23.Rac1 Bb7 -0.77/20 0 24.Rc7 Rac8 -0.59/21 0 25.Rxc8 Bxc8 -0.91/19 1:04 26.d6 Bb7 -1.02/19 36 27.Qe3 Qd5 -1.06/23 4:08 28.Kg2 Qxd6 -1.10/22 3:20 29.Kf2 Rd8 -1.10/23 2:50 30.d4 exd4 -1.10/23 3:27 31.Qe6+ Qxe6 -0.99/23 1:10 32.fxe6 d3 -1.03/25 2:13 33.Rc7 Bc8 -1.16/26 1:49 34.e7 Re8 -0.99/24 10 35.Nd4 Bxh3 -1.14/24 1:22 36.Nc6 h5 -1.21/24 0 37.Ke3 Bg2 -1.30/25 0 38.Kxd3 Bxc6 -1.32/25 2:43 39.Rxc6 Rxe7 -1.32/24 1:03 40.Rxa6 Re1 -1.52/25 45 41.Ra3 g5 -1.73/23 19 42.Rb3 Kg7 -2.19/24 5:09 43.Kd2 Re5 -2.75/20 23 44.Rb4 Kg6 -3.09/26 0 45.Rd4 Kf5 -3.39/23 0 46.Kd3 h4 -4.48/23 0 47.gxh4 g4 -4.55/22 0 48.Rd7 Kf4 -5.12/23 2:29 49.Rf7 f5 -5.12/26 6:45 50.h5 Kf3 -5.12/19 2:02 51.Kd4 Re4+ -5.12/30 0 0–1