53rd Programmers Tournament Leiden 2018 - Hiarcs wins!

[paulhuk]

Hi Harvey,

Can I ask why all the opposition engines are apparently rated at elo 1600🤔? Otherwise great results so far👍

Kind regards

Paul H

[Harvey Williamson]

round 8
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.06.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "The Baron"]
[Black "HIARCS 14.810g x64 MP"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "5400:1800+6"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]

1.d4 f5 2.Bg5 h6 3.Bd2 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Be2 Be7 6.Bh5+ Kf8 7.Be2 c5 8.c4 cxd4 9.exd4 d5 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Nf3 g5 12.O-O Kg7 13.Nc3 Nc6 14.Bb5 Bd6 15.Re1 Ne4 16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.Ne5 Be6 18.Na4 Bxe5 19.dxe5 c5 20.Bc1 g4 21.f3 gxf3 22.gxf3 Rg8 23.fxe4 Kh7+ 24.Kh1 fxe4 25.Rf1 Qh4 26.Bf4 Qh3 27.Qd2 d4 28.Qe2 e3 29.Qf3 Qxf3+ 30.Rxf3 Bd5 0-1

[Harvey Williamson]

Hi Harvey,

Can I ask why all the opposition engines are apparently rated at elo 1600🤔? Otherwise great results so far👍

Kind regards

Paul H

That is just a start rating the GUI gives to an opponent.

[paulhuk]

Thanks Harvey and congratulations on the outstanding results,

Regards,

Paul H

[Harvey Williamson]

We finished with 100% and won the tournament!

Round 9
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.06.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "HIARCS 14.810g x64 MP"]
[Black "RedQueen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1600"]
[TimeControl "1800:5400+6"]

1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 Bf5 4.d4 e6 5.c4 c5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3 Bxd3 8.Qxd3 c4 9.Qc2 Bb4+ 10.Bd2 Nc6 11.O-O O-O 12.Bxb4 Nxb4 13.Qe2 a6 14.Nc3 b5 15.Ne5 Qc7 16.g4 Ne4 17.Qg2 Qb7 18.g5 f6 19.gxf6 Rxf6 20.Rf3 Nd3 21.Nxe4 dxe4 22.Rg3 Rff8 23.Kh1 Rac8 24.Rg1 Rc7 25.Rg5 Rf6 26.f5 Rf8 27.Rf1 b4 28.f6 c3 29.Qg4 Nxe5 30.Qe6+ Rcf7 31.Rxg7+ Kh8 32.Qxe5 Qb5 33.Rfg1 Qxe5 34.dxe5 cxb2 35.Rxf7 Rxf7 36.Rb1 Rc7 37.Rxb2 Kg8 38.Rxb4 Kf7 39.Kg2 Ke6 40.Rxe4 Rc8 41.Rf4 Kxe5 42.f7 Rf8 43.Kh3 Ke6 44.Kg4 Rxf7 45.Rxf7 Kxf7 46.Kh5 1-0

[Harvey Williamson]

Now I have to spend an extra night in Leiden. I thought I booked the last flight home tonight but I booked the last flight home tomorrow So a night out to celebrate

[Mark Uniacke]

Thanks for all your work on this Harvey, a great result to win the tournament and do so with 9/9.

It was a lot of fun to play the Dutch Defence and the Bird's Opening in 7 out of the 9 games. We felt this paid some homage to the fantastic history of Dutch Computer Chess Federation and the Dutch and CSVN tournaments cumulatively dating back to 1981.

We certainly spent far less time in book - in two games we were thinking from move 3!

My favourite game was of course the win against The Baron since it combined a nice king side attack with the fact we overcame The Baron's "voodoo draw spell" over Hiarcs!?

[Scally]

Well done to the Hiarcs team...

Al.

[Scally]

Congratulations to the Hiarcs team...

Al.

[herO]

Congratulations to the Hiarcs team Great performance!

[MikeB]

Thanks for all your work on this Harvey, a great result to win the tournament and do so with 9/9.

It was a lot of fun to play the Dutch Defence and the Bird's Opening in 7 out of the 9 games. We felt this paid some homage to the fantastic history of Dutch Computer Chess Federation and the Dutch and CSVN tournaments cumulatively dating back to 1981.

We certainly spent far less time in book - in two games we were thinking from move 3!

My favourite game was of course the win against The Baron since it combined a nice king side attack with the fact we overcame The Baron's "voodoo draw spell" over Hiarcs!?

Congrats Mark - well done by you and team.

Former Fellow Nortel Employee Regards ,
MikeB

[Carl Bicknell]

Thanks for all your work on this Harvey, a great result to win the tournament and do so with 9/9.

It was a lot of fun to play the Dutch Defence and the Bird's Opening in 7 out of the 9 games. We felt this paid some homage to the fantastic history of Dutch Computer Chess Federation and the Dutch and CSVN tournaments cumulatively dating back to 1981.

We certainly spent far less time in book - in two games we were thinking from move 3!

My favourite game was of course the win against The Baron since it combined a nice king side attack with the fact we overcame The Baron's "voodoo draw spell" over Hiarcs!?

With the engine doing so well an update must be due anytime now...?

[herO]

Thanks for all your work on this Harvey, a great result to win the tournament and do so with 9/9.

It was a lot of fun to play the Dutch Defence and the Bird's Opening in 7 out of the 9 games. We felt this paid some homage to the fantastic history of Dutch Computer Chess Federation and the Dutch and CSVN tournaments cumulatively dating back to 1981.

We certainly spent far less time in book - in two games we were thinking from move 3!

My favourite game was of course the win against The Baron since it combined a nice king side attack with the fact we overcame The Baron's "voodoo draw spell" over Hiarcs!?

With the engine doing so well an update must be due anytime now...?

I hope so...

[Richard Pijl]

Congratulations to the Hiarcs team for participating and winning the tournament in this convincing way. Having seen quite a few games between Hiarcs and the Baron over the years, I was hoping for another draw. But anyone who looked at the game will agree that this time there wasn't a shred of a chance to get one.

Regarding the Baron: This is was a slightly modified 3.42 (evaluation changes) and I have spotted a few things (bugs) that I'm going to have a look at. So you can expect a new Baron 3.43 after the ICGA tournaments in Stockholm next month.

I already started work on the next Baron generation as well, and hope to enter that one in the Italian Championship which is held the last weekend of October in Mantova. Details of that tournament will appear soon on the GSEI website.

Richard.

[Harvey Williamson]

Congratulations to the Hiarcs team for participating and winning the tournament in this convincing way. Having seen quite a few games between Hiarcs and the Baron over the years, I was hoping for another draw. But anyone who looked at the game will agree that this time there wasn't a shred of a chance to get one.

Regarding the Baron: This is was a slightly modified 3.42 (evaluation changes) and I have spotted a few things (bugs) that I'm going to have a look at. So you can expect a new Baron 3.43 after the ICGA tournaments in Stockholm next month.

I already started work on the next Baron generation as well, and hope to enter that one in the Italian Championship which is held the last weekend of October in Mantova. Details of that tournament will appear soon on the GSEI website.

Richard.

Thanks Richard. I have added some notes to this game:

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.06.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "The Baron"]
[Black "HIARCS 14.810g x64 MP"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A80"]
[TimeControl "5400:1800+6"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]

1.d4 f5 2.Bg5 h6 3.Bd2 ( 3.Bh4 g5 { Is the main line here. } ) 3...Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Be2 Be7 6.Bh5+ Kf8 7.Be2 c5 8.c4 cxd4 9.exd4 d5 10.cxd5 { This is a new move. There is 1 game I can find where white played Nf3. } 10...exd5 11.Nf3 g5 12.O-O Kg7 13.Nc3 Nc6 14.Bb5 Bd6 15.Re1 Ne4 16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.Ne5 Be6 18.Na4 Bxe5 19.dxe5 c5 20.Bc1 $6 { At this point Mark asked me on Skype if this move was correct. } ( 20.Rc1 { This is the move Hiarcs was expecting. } ) 20...g4 $1 21.f3 $6 ( 21.Bf4 { Looks like the correct move. } ) 21...gxf3 22.gxf3 $4 ( 22.Qxf3 { Is the correct capture but black is better here. } ) 22...Rg8 $1 { Now the game is won. } 23.fxe4 Kh7+ 24.Kh1 fxe4 25.Rf1 Qh4 26.Bf4 Qh3 27.Qd2 d4 28.Qe2 e3 29.Qf3 Qxf3+ 30.Rxf3 Bd5 0-1