THE FIRST ITALIAN "HISTORIC" COMPUTER CHESS TOURNAMENT
I did this tournament in oct 1999 just to see the level of CC here in taly
I think is the first one beetween italian progs :-)
FINAL STANDING:
1) LarsenVB (by Luca Dormio) at 3 points
2 and 3) Raffaela (Stefano Gemma) and PC-ChessII (Carmelo Calzerano) both at 1.5 points
results:
1) LarsenVB -- Drago(/Raffaela) 1-0
2) Drago(/Raffaela) -- LarsenVB 1/2
3) Raffaela -- PcChessII 1/2
4) PcChessII -- Raffaela 1/2
5) LarsenVB -- PcChessII 1-0
6) PcChessII -- LarsenVB 1/2
following you can find the PGNs.
[Event "ITALIAN FIRST"]
[Site "MYHOME"]
[Date "1999.10.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "LarsenVB"]
[Black "Drago 0.21"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "40/7200"]
{drago work to a fixed (7) depth a used only half of his time}
1. d4 d5 2. e3 e5 3. dxe5 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bc5 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. Nf3 Bf5 7. Nc3
Bg4 8. O-O a5 9. Bd2 a4 10. h3 Bc8 11. b3 axb3 12. axb3 Bf5 13. Rxa8 Qxa8
14. g4 Bc8 15. Qa1 Ba6 16. Qa4 f5 17. Ra1 fxg4 18. hxg4 Ne7 19. Qxa6 Qxa6
20. Rxa6 O-O 21. Nd4 Bb4 22. Nxc6 Nxc6 23. Rxc6 g5 24. Rxc7 Rb8 25. Nxd5
Bxd2 26. Nf6+ Kf8 27. e6 Rb7 28. Rxb7 Bxe3 29. Rf7#
{White Mates} 1-0
[Event "ITALIAN FIRST"]
[Site "MYHOME"]
[Date "1999.11.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Drago lev.8"]
[Black "LarsenVB"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "40/7800"]
{drago now work to lev. (8) and used his time trice :-(}
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Bb5 c5 4. a4 a6 5. Bc4 cxd4 6. Bf4 e5 7. Bd2 Nf6 8.
Bg5 Qb6 9. Nd2 Qxb2 10. Rb1 Qa3 11. Qf3 Qxf3 12. Ngxf3 Nc6 13. Rb6 h6 14.
Bxf6 Bxf6 15. O-O O-O 16. Ra1 g5 17. h3 d6 18. Nf1 Bd8 19. Rb2 Ba5 20. Rd1
Bb4 21. Ng3 Bd7 22. Nf5 Bxf5 23. exf5 Rfc8 24. Bd5 a5 25. f6 b6 26. Kh2
Rc7
27. Kg3 Rac8 28. Kg4 Nb8 29. c4 dxc3 30. Rc2 Nd7 31. Kf5 Nc5 32. Rb1 Nxa4
33. h4 gxh4 34. Rh1 b5 35. Rxh4 Nb6 36. Rg4+ Kh8 37. Bb3 Rg8 38. Rxg8+
Kxg8
39. g4 a4 40. Ba2 Ba3 41. g5 hxg5 42. Bb1 b4 43. Re2 b3 44. Bc2 Nd5 45.
Be4
c2 46. Re1 Nc3 47. Rg1 Nxe4 48. Kxe4 b2 49. Rxg5+ Kh8 50. Rh5+ Kg8 51.
Rg5+
Kh8 52. Rh5+ Kg8 53. Rg5+ Kh8 {3 rep.} 1/2-1/2
[Event "Partite Storiche ;-)"]
[Site "LUIGI"]
[Date "2000.01.13"]
[Round "3"]
[White "drago Lev.8"]
[Black "pcchessII Lev.6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "600"]
{the time dont matter 'cause the 2 program work at a fixed deep}
1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 e5 3. dxe5 Nxe5 4. Nc3 g5 5. Be3 c5 6. Qd5 Qe7 7. Nf3 f6
8.
Nxe5 fxe5 9. Qd2 g4 10. Bc4 Nf6 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. Qxd5 Rb8 13. Be2 d6 14.
b4
b6 15. Bb5+ Kd8 16. O-O cxb4 17. Qd2 Qf7 18. Bg5+ Kc7 19. Qxb4 Bd7 20.
Bxd7
Qxd7 21. Qc4+ Kb7 22. Qd5+ Kc7 23. Qc4+ Kb7 24. Qd5+ Kc7 25. Qc4+ Kb7 26.
Qd5+ Kc7 27. Qc4+ Kb7 28. Qd5+ Kc7 29. Qc4+ Kb7 30. Qd5+ Kc7
{draw 3rep.: drago used almost the same time }
[Date "2000.02.09"]
[Round "4"]
[White "pcchessII level 6"]
[Black "Raffaela(Drago) level 8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "6000"]
{the timecontrol is not important because both program have fixed
level and ignore it; time used white about 40%, black 60%}
1. c4 e6 2. d4 Bb4+ 3. Bd2 Bxd2+ 4. Nxd2 Ne7 5. e4 Nec6 6. Ngf3 Qe7 7.
d5
exd5 8. cxd5 Ne5 9. Nxe5 Qxe5 10. Qc2 O-O 11. Nc4 Qd4 12. Rd1 Qc5 13.
Qb1
Qb4+ 14. Rd2 d6 15. Qc2 Qc5 16. a3 a5 17. Qc3 Re8 18. b4 axb4 19. Qxb4
Rxe4+ 20. Be2 Qxb4 21. axb4 Ra1+ 22. Rd1 Rxd1+ 23. Kxd1 Bg4 24. f3
Rd4+ 25.
Kc1 Bd7 26. Rd1 Rh4 27. h3 Bb5 28. g4 Rxh3 29. Rd4 Rh1+ 30. Kd2 Nd7
31. f4
Nf6 32. g5 c5 33. dxc6 bxc6 34. gxf6 d5 35. Nd6 Bxe2 36. Kxe2 Rh2+ 37.
Kf3
gxf6 38. b5 cxb5 39. Nxb5 Rh3+ 40. Kg4 Re3 41. Rxd5 Re4 42. Nd4 Kg7
43. Rd8
h5+ 44. Kf3 Re1 45. Rd6 Re8 46. Rd7 Kg6 47. Rd5 Rc8 48. Ra5 Rc1 49.
Ra6 Re1
50. Ra5 h4 51. Ra6 h3 52. Kg3 Re3+ 53. Kf2 h2 54. Kg2 Re4 55. f5+ Kg7
56.Ra4 h1=Q+ 57. Kxh1 Kh6 58. Kh2 Rg4 59. Kh3 Kh5 60. Kh2 Re4 61. Kh3 Rg4
62.Kh2 Re4 1/2-1/2{draw: 3 rep.}
[Event "Partita Storica n.5"]
[Site "PII 400/128 Mb"]
[Date "2000.02.12"]
[Round "5"]
[White "LarsenVB"]
[Black "PCChessII"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "40/7200"]
{PcChessII AT LEVEL 8}
1. e4 c5 2. d3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e5 4. Be2 d5 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Nc3
Qd8 7. O-O Be7 8. Ne4 f5 9. Ned2 Bf6 10. Nb3 b6 11. a4 Bb7
12. a5 Nge7 13. Re1 Nxa5 14. Nxa5 bxa5 15. Nxe5 Bxe5
16. Bh5+ g6 17. Rxe5 Qc7 18. Bf4 O-O-O 19. Rxf5 Qb6 20. Rf7
gxh5 21. Rxe7 Rdg8 22. g3 Qxb2 23. Be5 Qb6 24. Qxh5 Bc6
25. Rc7+ Qxc7 26. Bxc7 Kxc7 27. Qxc5 a6 28. Qxa5+ Kd7
29. Qf5+ Kc7 30. Rxa6 Kb7 31. Qa5 Be4 32. Ra7+ Kc6 33. d4
{with mate following}
1-0
[Event "Partita Storica n.6"]
[Site "PII 400/128 Mb"]
[Date "2000.02.12"]
[Round "6"]
[White "PCChessII"]
[Black "LarsenVB"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "40/7200"]
{LarsenVB follow the timecontrol but pcchess ha the fixed deep set to 8}
1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. c4 Bd7 4. f4 Bg7 5. Nf3 c5 6. dxc5 dxc5
7. Ne5 Bxe5 8. fxe5 Nc6 9. Bf4 Qb6 10. Qc2 Nd4 11. Qd2 Ne6
12. Bg3 O-O-O 13. Bd3 h5 14. Nc3 h4 15. Nd5 Qc6 16. Bf2 f6
17. exf6 exf6 18. Be3
18...h3 19. O-O Rf8 20. b4 hxg2 21. Qxg2 Qd6 22. bxc5 Nxc5
23. Rfd1 Ba4 24. Bc2 Bxc2 25. Qxc2 Qc6 26. Qg2 f5 27. Nb4
Qc7 28. Nd5 Qc6 29. Nb4 Qc7 30. Nd5 Qc6
{Draw by repetition}
1/2-1/2