Computer Chess News From Italy
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12/20/2001 Andrea Gatti close his "Pentagon" project and Quit from CC
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12/18/2001 Carmelo "ciccio" Calzerano Release "Leila 0.41i"
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12/18/2001 Nicola Rizzuti Release "Gargamella 0.0.1"
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12/9/2001 Start the "Second Italian Engine Contest (SIEC)"
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11/30/2001 (Survey N.5) LEILA'S REVENGE
NewElo OldElo diff RD win loss draw total best
Leila(C) 2339 2129 +210 32.4 3852 2422 703 6977 2419 (06-Aug-2001)
ESC(C) 2231 2231 --- 72.7 671 359 93 1123 2231 (19-Sep-2001)
POWERHOUSE(C) 2135 2247 -112 47.8 3047 1481 289 4817 2303 (07-Nov-2001)
Delfi(C) 2138 2111 + 27 51.5 116 116 30 262 2138 (24-Nov-2001)
xaldebaran(C) 1983 1983 --- 96.9 53 8 8 69 2014 (23-Jul-2001)
Cyberpagno(C) 2093 2068 + 25 29.5 1973 721 362 3056 2115 (06-Oct-2001)
ChessGolem(C) 2034 2043 - 10 64.2 744 497 129 1370 2043 (25-Sep-2001)
LarsenVB(C) 1853 1853 --- 111.2 578 254 88 920 1853 (21-Jul-2001)
Rinko(C) 1914 1835 + 79 47.3 168 42 27 237 1914 (30-Nov-2001)
Pentagon(C) 1710 1710 --- 87.7 186 144 68 398 1835 (06-Jul-2001)
Raffaela 1795 1795 --- 129.5 79 40 6 125 1825 (25-Nov-2000)
Mjoelner(C) 1527 1603 - 66 63.5 84 52 10 146 1671 (06-Jul-2001)
maronti(C) 1965 ---- new 199.4 4 0 0 4
Leila is back in quite good shape and regained the top of the list (note "she" is
still more than 80 under is best!!). This time is POWERHOUSE that is not in his
good period and loose 112 points. Little improvments by Cyberpagno and Delfi, but
Rinko (+79) show his power gaining his best rating and from the history seems
he continue his rush. (I wonder what would be Rinko rating if runned on "state
of the art" PC). Golem played few games (-10) and Mjolner seems in experimenting
phase (-66). Welcome to Maronti and I hope Carlo's LordKing will join soon.
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11/14/2001 LordKing jumps on League D at Lyapko Tournaments
Italian Wintage at Lyapko site continues!
LordKing just succeded in promoting in league D with 21 points
in 26 game. Well done Carlo. All my compliments.
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11/9/2001 (Survey N.4) Changing Of the Guard (on first Place)
NewElo OldElo diff RD win loss draw total best
POWERHOUSE(C) 2247 2118 129 66.9 3032 1446 280 4758 2303 (07-Nov-2001)
ESC(C) 2231 2231 --- 65.0 671 359 93 1123 2231 (19-Sep-2001)
Leila(C) 2129 2253 -124 38.1 3754 2352 647 6753 2419 (06-Aug-2001)
Delfi(C) 2111 2045 66 43.8 113 115 27 255 2111 (05-Nov-2001)
Cyberpagno(C) 2068 2029 39 39.4 1813 658 341 2812 2115 (06-Oct-2001)
ChessGolem(C) 2043 2043 --- 56.5 744 496 129 1369 2043 (25-Sep-2001)
xaldebaran(C) 1983 1934 49 91.3 53 8 8 69 2014 (23-Jul-2001)
LarsenVB(C) 1853 1853 --- 106.3 578 254 88 920 1853 (21-Jul-2001)
Rinko(C) 1835 1835 --- 101.1 103 29 10 142 1835 (09-Jul-2001)
Raffaela(C) 1795 1795 --- 125.3 79 40 6 125 1825 (25-Nov-2000)
Pentagon(C) 1710 1789 -79 81.4 186 144 68 398 1835 (06-Jul-2001)
Mjoelner(C) 1603 1615 -12 74.0 75 43 10 128 1671 (06-Jul-2001)
Leila is falling down ... hey "ciccio" what's up?
Fortress at the first place .. seems Alessandro is back!!!
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11/9/2001 Italian engines on Lyapko Tournaments
Several Italian engines are playin main roles on the tournament at Lyapko's site.
In league G Raffaela had 14.5 on 22 games (place 4), just a place higher
and it would have climbed in League F.
Tamerlane had only 1 point on 22 games.
On League F there was 5 Italian Engines.
the 2 qualifier for league E were both italian (Delfi and Aldebaran),
unfortunatly the last two (LarsenVb and Pentagon, that drop in league G)
are both italian too!
Golem gained the right to stay on league F
The league running now is League E and we have only LordKing there but it
is doing well and I hope it can jump on league D.
On the upper leagues he have (ready to start) Esc (League D) and
Fortress (League C).
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10/1/2001 (Survey N.3) GOLEM +168!!
NewElo OldElo RD win loss draw best
Leila 2253 2333 -80 34.5 3624 2112 587 2419 (06-Aug-2001)
ESC 2231 2184 +47 47.7 671 359 93 2231 (19-Sep-2001)
POWERHOUSE 2118 2118 === 123.9 3009 1439 277 2199 (10-Oct-1999)
Delfi 2045 2010 +35 41.0 74 74 20 2045 (24-Sep-2001)
xaldebaran 1934 1934 === 89.5 50 8 7 2014 (23-Jul-2001)
Cyberpagno 2029 1903 +126 27.6 1702 629 333 2102 (19-Aug-2001)
ChessGolem 2043 1875 +168 35.2 744 496 129 2043 (25-Sep-2001)
LarsenVB 1853 1853 === 96.7 578 254 88 1853 (21-Jul-2001)
Rinko 1835 1835 === 90.9 103 29 10 1835 (09-Jul-2001)
Pentagon 1789 1809 -20 74.9 185 141 68 1835 (06-Jul-2001)
Raffaela 1795 1795 === 117.3 79 40 6 1825 (25-Nov-2000)
Mjoelner 1615 1615 === 77.6 66 38 10 1671 (06-Jul-2001)
Nice jump by Golem this time: +168 from the last survey!!!!
3 progs (Esc, Delfi, Golem) are at their best: GOOD!!
Leila loose a lot (-80, ciccio stop testing! ;-)
Esc gain quite a bit (+47). Will be a new first next mounth?
Pentagon loose a little bit .. No games for all the other Engines.
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9/12/2001 ABOUT THE IMPRESIVE JOB BY FABIO CAVICCHIO
I just realized that this ticker missed several Delfi release
I try to fix this cut-and-pasting the release history in
delfi home page:
2001/07/31 1.00 The first release.
2001/08/06 1.03 Most bugs corrected.
2001/08/11 1.10 Major upgrade, many optimizations.
2001/08/17 1.12 Fixed a draw problem in the KR vs K endgame.
2001/08/20 1.20 More speed, fixed a problem in the input thread.
2001/08/22 1.30 Major upgrade, stronger play.
2001/08/27 1.40 Added a small opening book and Show Thinking.
2001/09/03 1.41 Added 50 Moves draw and minor optimizations.
2001/09/12 1.51 Improved speed and positional play.
As you can see Fabio released almost weekly!
I may add delfi is getting stroger and stronger...
its about 2050 on fics now ... really not bad ;-)
my compliments.
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9/6/2001 RELEASED PENTAGON 1.3 BY ANDREA GATTI
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9/5/2001 RELEASED LORDKING III BY CARLO PIVOTTO
Carlo said that in this version there are:
--- Some bug fixed.
--- Possibility to configure Hash Table size.
--- Different personality (Chessmaster-Like)
If you want to know more and you understand italian you
can take a look this g6-forum post.
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9/4/2001 FICS SURVEY N.2
rating diff RD win loss draw total best
Leila 2333 -24 24.4 3500 1951 551 6002 2419 (06-Aug-2001)
ESC 2184 +107 40.8 628 354 88 1070 2206 (04-Jul-2001)
POWERHOUSE 2118 === 118.3 3009 1439 277 4725 2199 (10-Oct-1999)
Delfi 2010 +118 65.2 21 12 4 37 2017 (03-Sep-2001)
xaldebaran 1934 === 81.5 50 8 7 65 2014 (23-Jul-2001)
Cyberpagno 1903 -124 30.8 1309 490 266 2065 2102 (19-Aug-2001)
ChessGolem 1875 -26 27.6 646 431 112 1189 1926 (04-Sep-2001)
LarsenVB 1853 === 89.4 578 254 88 920 1853 (21-Jul-2001)
Rinko 1835 === 83.1 103 29 10 142 1835 (09-Jul-2001)
Pentagon 1809 === 67.2 184 139 68 391 1835 (06-Jul-2001)
Raffaela 1795 === 111.3 79 40 6 125 1825 (25-Nov-2000)
Mjoelner 1615 === 68.2 66 38 10 114 1671 (06-Jul-2001)
Big Plus For Delfi and ESC, Compliments!!
Little Minus for Golem and Leila (within the RD).
-124 for cyberpagno that has its record at 2102
but nowadays is about 200 point less.(Marco what's up!?)
All the other engines was no active in the last 15 days.
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8/31/2001 IT IS BORN A NEW ITALIAN PROGRAM: "SOLDAT"
By MARCO GIUSFREDI
It use only material and mobility, no book, no hash
table. Not released yet.
here there is "his" first game where for a bug let tscp
draw a hopeless final:
[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "OEMCOMPUTER"]
[Date "2001.08.31"]
[Round "-"]
[White "soldat"]
[Black "tscp"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "40/300"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. a3 Nf6 5. h4 Be7 6. g3 O-O 7. Bd2 Bd7 8.
e3 Bd6 9. Nb5 Qe7 10. Bd3 e5 11. Be2 e4 12. Ng5 a6 13. Nxd6 Qxd6 14. Nh3
Bxh3 15. Rxh3 a5 16. Rh1 h6 17. c4 dxc4 18. Bxc4 Rfd8 19. Qb3 Qd7 20. a4
Ra7 21. Kd1 Ne5 22. Bb5 Qg4+ 23. Kc2 Nf3 24. Bc3 Qh5 25. Bc4 Ng4 26. Rhf1
Nfh2 27. Rh1 Qf5 28. Be1 Nf3 29. Bc3 Nxf2 30. Rhf1 Ng4 31. Bd2 Rxd4 32.
exd4 Nxd4+ 33. Kc3 Nxb3 34. Rxf5 Nxa1 35. Be2 Nf6 36. b3 Kh7 37. Kb2 Nxb3
38. Kxb3 Kg6 39. Rxa5 Rxa5 40. Bxa5 b6 41. Bd2 c5 42. Kc4 Kf5 43. Kb5 Nd5
44. Bc4 e3 45. Be1 Ke5 46. Kc6 Nf6 47. Bc3+ Ke4 48. Kxb6 Nd5+ 49. Bxd5+
Kxd5 50. a5 Kc4 51. Be1 Kd3 52. a6 Ke2 53. Ba5 c4 54. a7 Kf2 55. a8=Q Kxg3
56. Qf8 Kxh4 57. Qxg7 Kh5 58. Qxf7+ Kg5 59. Qxc4 h5 60. Bc3 h4 61. Qe4 e2
62. Bd2+ Kf6 63. Qxh4+ Ke5 64. Qh2+ Kd5 65. Qxe2 Kd4 66. Kc6
{Stalemate} 1/2-1/2
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8/24/2001
End of the World Micro Computer Chess Championship. The program
Shredder with an Italian Book (by Sandro Necchi), Is the "Single CPU" World
Champion!
Here there is a CutAndPaste of the Comments Sandro gave about his book
on the newsgroup It.Hobby.Scacchi.
"Il mio libro d'apertura si è comportato abbastanza bene perché solo su 2
partite non andava bene. Nella seconda partita, anche se l'abbiamo vinta,
dopo 23. Ad3 il bianco sta un po' meglio e il programma non sa cosa fare.
La terza partita è stata persa a causa del libro d'apertura che ha dato al
nero la partita vinta. Questa variante è molto rischiosa, ma avevamo sempre
vinto le partite di prova e quindi non ci siamo accorti che dopo 25.h4! È il
nero che vince.
Per cercare di vincere il più possibile occorre anche rischiare, ma qui
abbiamo rischiato un po' troppo. Nelle altre partite il libro d'apertura
andava bene e solo imprecisioni del programma nella partita 1 e 7 hanno
impedito di fare in queste partite il punto pieno."
the English is not my strong point but I'll try to translate it:
"My book was quite good, infact had problem only in 2 games. In the second game,
even if we won that game, after 23.Bd3 white is better and the program don't
know what to do. The third game was lose by the book that gave to black a won
game. That is a very risky variant, but the program won any test game and so
we did not reilze that after 25.h4 the black wins.
If you want to win you must to take some risks but we took too much risks here.
In the other games teh book was ok and only some doubius move in game 1 and 7
by the program, prevented us to win that two games."
In any case my compliment to the shredder team for the title and many thanks
to Sandro to keep the "Italian Flag" high at the world championship.
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8/20/2001
Situation of the italian engine on fics:
BlitzRating RD win loss draw total best
Leila 2357 22.5 3405 1869 528 5802 2419 (06-Aug-2001)
POWERHOUSE 2118 115.5 3009 1439 277 4725 2199 (10-Oct-1999)
ESC 2077 46.9 574 346 87 1007 2206 (04-Jul-2001)
Cyberpagno 2027 30.8 1256 462 258 1976 2102 (19-Aug-2001)
xaldebaran 1934 77.4 50 8 7 65 2014 (23-Jul-2001)
ChessGolem 1901 61.8 565 346 90 1001 1924 (02-Jul-2001)
Delfi 1892 93.6 8 6 2 16
LarsenVB 1853 85.6 578 254 88 920 1853 (21-Jul-2001)
Rinko 1835 79.0 103 29 10 142 1835 (09-Jul-2001)
Pentagon 1809 67.7 183 136 67 386 1835 (06-Jul-2001)
Raffaela 1795 108.3 79 40 6 125 1825 (25-Nov-2000)
Mjoelner 1615 63.3 66 38 10 114 1671 (06-Jul-2001)
maronti ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0
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8/20/2001
On Thomas Mayer NewsTicker I saw that Fabio Cavicchio has released Delfi - v1.20
hum... Delfi is moving forward very fast :-)
this version “Fixed a draw problem in the KR vs. K endgame. More speed, fixed a problem in the input thread.”
delfi download at http://www.sira.it/msb/delfi.htm
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8/11/2001
Fabio Cavicchio Releases Delfi 1.10.
Fixed a Castling Problem a added "null moves" and "iterative deepening" .
Fabio reports on g6 forum the new delfi is quite stronger than the older one.
It goes one more ply deep (using the same time) than the previous version.
delfi download at http://www.sira.it/msb/delfi.htm
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8/6/2001
the Carmelo Calzerano Program "Leila" jumped over the 2400 wall on Fics.
My compliments to Carmelo.
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8/4/2001
Cut and paste from a Ciro Vignotto post on g6 Forum (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/g_6)
about a big tourney Ciro had on his PC
the games were 5/0 (g-elo standard time on Ciro's PC)
Subject: Torneo-test
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 Leila_035b ** 01 10 11 11 11 11 11 1½ 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 27.5/30
2 Fortress_162 10 ** 11 11 11 ½1 11 1½ 1 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 26.0/29
3 Esc_031 01 00 ** 10 1½ 01 ½0 10 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 21.0/30
4 Aldebaran 0.7.0 00 00 01 ** 11 01 11 11 0 01 01 1½ 11 01 11 1½ 18.0/29
5 Tamerlane_002 00 00 0½ 00 ** 11 00 10 10 11 11 11 ½1 11 11 11 18.0/30
6 LordKing_29D 00 ½0 10 10 00 ** 0½ ½1 10 1½ 01 11 11 11 01 11 17.0/30
7 CyberPagno_06 00 00 ½1 00 11 1½ ** 10 10 ½0 11 0½ ½1 ½½ 01 11 15.5/30
8 LordKing_29 00 0½ 01 00 01 ½0 01 ** 11 01 00 ½1 10 11 11 ½1 15.0/30
9 Rinko_105b_01 0½ 0 00 1 01 01 01 00 ** 0 11 1½ 1½ ½ 11 11 14.0/26
10 Maronti 0.0.5 00 00 01 10 00 0½ ½1 10 1 ** 10 1 1½ 10 10 11 13.5/28
11 pcchess4mb_IIc 00 00 00 10 00 10 00 11 00 01 ** 11 11 11 10 1½ 13.5/30
12 Golem_04 00 00 00 0½ 00 00 1½ ½0 0½ 0 00 ** 11 ½1 01 11 9.5/29
13 Delfi 1.01 00 01 00 00 ½0 00 ½0 01 0½ 0½ 00 00 ** 11 10 01 8.0/30
14 LarsenVB_04 00 00 00 10 00 00 ½½ 00 ½ 01 00 ½0 00 ** 11 11 8.0/29
15 Raffaela_005 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 00 00 01 01 10 01 00 ** 00 6.0/30
16 Pentagon 1.2 00 00 00 0½ 00 00 00 ½0 00 00 0½ 00 10 00 11 ** 4.5/30
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8/3/2001
Cut and paste from a Leo Dijksman post
on g6 Forum (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/g_6)
the games were 40/40.
Subject: Crosstable "Italian" part of WB-Ridderkerk.
Italian part of the 4e_5eDivision 2001
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Esc 1.02 * 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 8.0/9
2 LordKingV 2.9 0 * 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 6.5/9
3 LarsenVB 0.4.07 0 1 * ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 6.0/9 23.50
4 Rinko 1.06b ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 6.0/9 23.00
5 Aldebaran 0.70 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 5.0/9
6 CyberPagno 0.6b/0.7b 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½ 1 3.5/9
7 Pentagon 1.2 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 * 0 0 1 3.0/9 13.00
8 Tamerlane 0.2 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 * 0 ½ 3.0/9 11.00
9 Golem 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 * 0 2.5/9
10 Raffaela 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 * 1.5/9
Tournament pages: http://home.hccnet.nl/leo.dijksman/index.html
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8/1/2001
Fabio Cavicchio Released his engine "Delfi"
Its italian engine N.16 :-)
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