8th International CSVN Tournament (ICT) 30-31 May/1 June

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Post by Eelco de Groot »

Good to hear that Theo could make it Harvey!

A pity that HIARCS did not play its strongest tournament but maybe the tournament was too short. Harvey did you have to eat patat without mayo or was it just tomato juice and strong coffee for you today? What did you do last night :?

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Eelco de Groot wrote:Good to hear that Theo could make it Harvey!

A pity that HIARCS did not play its strongest tournament but maybe the tournament was too short. Harvey did you have to eat patat without mayo or was it just tomato juice and strong coffee for you today? What did you do last night :?

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Last night Richard Pijl and I had Dinner together followed by Irish Coffee, Coffee and Brandy, and then Famous Grouse.
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outch - that sonds really poisonous.
Btw. there are some other toxic substances you can get in Holland that are not legal in other parts of Europe ;)

sobering regards,
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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Eelco de Groot wrote:Good to hear that Theo could make it Harvey!

A pity that HIARCS did not play its strongest tournament but maybe the tournament was too short. Harvey did you have to eat patat without mayo or was it just tomato juice and strong coffee for you today? What did you do last night :?

Eelco
Last night Richard Pijl and I had Dinner together followed by Irish Coffee, Coffee and Brandy, and then Famous Grouse.
As far as I'm concerned it was a strong tournament by Hiarcs as it beat CTD/theBaron for the first time in Leiden :wink:

It is still a pity they didn't let us finish the bottle 8)
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Richard Pijl wrote: It is still a pity they didn't let us finish the bottle 8)
Don't worry Richard I have taken care of it :-) I hope you had a safe trip home.

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Harvey Williamson wrote:
Richard Pijl wrote: It is still a pity they didn't let us finish the bottle 8)
Don't worry Richard I have taken care of it :-) I hope you had a safe trip home.

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My trip was as safe as I could have hoped for. I'm currently finishing a bottle of Grant's that I left behind when I drove to the tournament. I guess there was a similar amount left in that one too.
Don't forget to rise early tomorrow, and don't hunk the horn when crossing the Belgian border as you might wake me up :-)
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lukas as a medical man you know all about what is available in holland,could you now wake the hiarcs team up and carefully explain that they have only 25 hours left to make the first move.spaced out as they are time has no meaning.its ironic that the rybka players have to pull the Hiarcs team out of there drug induced fantasy of beating Rybka.
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This game must be the quickest ever in a major Computer Chess tournament:

[Event "ICT8"]
[Site "Leiden"]
[Date "2008.06.01"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Diep"]
[Black "Tzjezz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "15"]
[EventDate "2008.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. e3 Bb7 5. Bd3 d5 6. O-O Bd6 7. b3 dxc4 8. Bxc4
1-0
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Harvey Williamson wrote:This game must be the quickest ever in a major Computer Chess tournament:

[Event "ICT8"]
[Site "Leiden"]
[Date "2008.06.01"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Diep"]
[Black "Tzjezz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "15"]
[EventDate "2008.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. e3 Bb7 5. Bd3 d5 6. O-O Bd6 7. b3 dxc4 8. Bxc4
1-0
It just shows that Tzjezz is in the same league as POS or CPP1..

I have so many games from POS and CPP1 that are less than 14ply..
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i was having a look at the photos of the recently concluded 17th Gebruikers (oldies )dedicated chess computer tournament held in Leiden
this event is held concurrently with the minor event ..the Computer Chess tournament

as i was perusing the photos i came across this..

http://www.schachcomputer.info/html/bod ... 08_31.html

:shock:

Who Are These Guys Regards
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from left to right:
Harvey Williamson
Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Jeroen Noomen
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Richard Pijl wrote:from left to right:
Harvey Williamson
Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Jeroen Noomen

Wow :o If Jeroen had a red afro he would look just like Ronald Mcdonald :!: Harvey looks just like my best friends father(a very cool dude) and Gian-Carlo looks like he needed a note from his mom so he could skip school in order to attend :D
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As you can also see from the other pictures on this site, some people switch from the modern programs to the oldtimers.
My daughter came to the tournament to help me to operate my program, but she ended up helping Hans in the oldies tournament and playing against Hein's new phantom machine. Now she wants one too ...
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Richard Pijl wrote: My daughter came to the tournament to help me to operate my program, but she ended up helping Hans in the oldies tournament and playing against Hein's new phantom machine. Now she wants one too ...
Richard.
so thats the charming little girl in the photos playing against Ruud,Rob, Hans and Hein?

i can see she is very smart because she automatically gravitated to the main event(dedicated computers) rather then the minor event(PC engines)
:P

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PortCitySlim wrote:
Wow :o If Jeroen had a red afro he would look just like Ronald Mcdonald
Jeroen is also a dedicated chess computer collector and enthusiast
heres a photo from my website taken in 1990 of a younger Jeroen when he was the opening book author for Richard Langs programs in the Mephisto computers

here he is operating the Mephisto Portorose module against former World Champion Karpov in a simultaneous exhibition
IIRC the game was drawn(but i am not 100% certain)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 923818481/

It All Started With Dedicated Computers Regards
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