Hiarcs World Computer Software Champion 2013!

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WCCC 2013
Live games can be followed here: LIVE
Live PGN file: LIVE PGN
Played games: wccc2013.pgn
Report: 20th WCCC.pdf

Cross Table

# Name Score 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 Junior 5 – 1. 1. 1. 0. 11
2 Shredder 2 0. – 0. 0. ½½ 1.
3 Hiarcs 3 0. 1. – ½½ 0. 1.
4 Pandix 3½ 0. 1. ½½ – ½. 1.
5 Jonny 4½ 1. ½½ 1. ½. – 1.
6 Merlin 0 00 0. 0. 0. 0. –

Round 1
Junior – Merlin 1-0
Shredder – Jonny ½-½
Hiarcs – Pandix ½-½

Round 2 – Tuesday 13 August 09:00-13:00
Merlin – Pandix 0-1
Jonny – Hiarcs 1-0
Junior – Shredder 1-0

Round 3 – Tuesday 13 August 13:30-17:30
Shredder – Merlin 1-0
Hiarcs – Junior 0-1
Pandix – Jonny ½-½

Round 4 – Wednesday 14 August 09:00-13:00
Merlin – Jonny 0-1
Junior – Pandix 1-0
Shredder – Hiarcs 0-1

Round 5 – Wednesday 14 August 13:30-17:30
Hiarcs – Merlin 1-0
Pandix – Shredder 1-0
Jonny – Junior 1-0

Round 6 – Thursday 15 August 09:00-13:00
Merlin – Junior 0-1
Jonny – Shredder ½-½
Pandix – Hiarcs ½-½

Round 7 – Thursday 15 August 13:30-17:30
Pandix – Merlin
Hiarcs – Jonny
Shredder – Junior

Round 8 – Friday 16 August 09:00-13:00
Merlin – Shredder
Junior – Hiarcs
Jonny – Pandix

Round 9 – Saturday 17 August 09:00-13:00
Jonny – Merlin
Pandix – Junior
Hiarcs – Shredder

Round 10 – Saturday 17 August 13:30-17:30
Merlin – Hiarcs
Shredder – Pandix
Junior – Jonny
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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Jonny runs on a University cluster in Germany. Sadly the 12 core I used to have is no longer with us. Amir is actually running the machine with ht on so 48 threads.
Sorry to hear about your 12 core. I get quite attached to my machines.

Am REALLY intrigued by the Junior team using HT. Most programmers would say HT hurts but especially going from 24 to 48 threads where (I would have thought) it would be very hard to show a gain but very easy to show a loss in performance.

You couldn't do an undercover investigation, could you?
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The ICGA Dinner yesterday

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I had dinner tonight with Jonathan Schaeffer the guy who solved Draughts.

Hiarcs is joint 1st in the software(equal hardware) tournament at the moment on 3.5/4
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I don't think I've ever seen so many English openings at a computer event! Just a few years ago, it was all about the Najdorf Byrne attack. What determines these opening trends?

I'm also surprised that the opening prep seems to break off around move 14 in most games. I have been expecting another 50 move book game like we saw a few years ago.
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After 5 rounds of the WCSC on = hardware Hiarcs is in 1st place leading by a point. A nice win here against junior http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic. ... 0731#60731
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So we got 3rd in the unlimited hardware section of the world championship behind Junior on 24/48 cores and Jonny on 2400. Congratulations to Amir, Shay and johannes.

3 rounds to go in the uniform platform event and Hiarcs leads by 1 point.
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Hiarcs is the World Computer Software Champion 2013 played on equal hardware!
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Harvey Williamson wrote:Hiarcs is the World Computer Software Champion 2013 played on equal hardware!
Wow, the two last rounds were more thrilling than you liked, I guess ;-)

Big Congratulations for Team Hiarcs for defending its title!
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Congrats to Hiarcs for the Second World Title in a row!

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Gerd Isenberg wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:Hiarcs is the World Computer Software Champion 2013 played on equal hardware!
Wow, the two last rounds were more thrilling than you liked, I guess ;-)

Big Congratulations for Team Hiarcs for defending its title!
Thanks Gerd. a shame you were not here this time!

thanks also to Steve for his support and everybody else who has been following the event.
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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Gerd Isenberg wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:Hiarcs is the World Computer Software Champion 2013 played on equal hardware!
Wow, the two last rounds were more thrilling than you liked, I guess ;-)

Big Congratulations for Team Hiarcs for defending its title!
Thanks Gerd. a shame you were not here this time!

thanks also to Steve for his support and everybody else who has been following the event.
Well Done Harvey
only one loss in both WCSC World Titles Combined!
Invincible Regards
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Post by LoveChessAH »

Congrets to the Hiarcs Team (behind and in front of the Team) to this good
results.

Daily report was good....live report today was very strength today.


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Wow, super congrats to the Hiarcs team!!!
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One of the funniest moments of the trip was when we all went to a middle eastern restaurant. The owner was from Lebanon. He decided Amir was not using his Pita bread in the correct way to pick up food and so decided to give his Israeli neighbour a lesson in how to eat Middle Eastern food :-) I wish I had taken a photograph.
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Harvey Williamson wrote:Hiarcs is the World Computer Software Champion 2013 played on equal hardware!
Congratulations to the Hiarcs team on the tournament victory.
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