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Collector's Corner...Match Of The Unknown Soldiers

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Largely ignored and forgotten by history..the Conic Korchnoi and Novag Dynamic 'S' begin their historic 3 game encounter to be passed down to future generations,recorded and remembered for Time Immemorial

Once again a big thanks to Forum Elder Larry who made this match possible by his overly generous actions in sending me the Dynamic 'S'

The Story So Far.....

In preparation for the match...Korchnoi won a brilliant game against the Novag Chess Champion Super System III
that game is the first recorded game of the Korchnoi anywhere on the net
the game can be found here:
http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=69660#69660
this match will feature the very first recorded game of the Dynamic 'S' on the net
a nice feature of the Conic is that it will light up the K square if the K is in check..

The Match will consist of 3 games at 1 Min./Avg. with colors reversing
Korchnoi wins the coin toss and will have the white pieces first

In The First Game...
Dyn S was the first to leave book at move 5
Korchnoi wins a P at move 26 which results in a
drawish R+P position
Dyn blunders on move 42 offering to trade R's which is fatal
Korchnoi accepts the trade which sets off a Blunder parade ..each side trading game losing blunders ,culminating in a nail biting P race to see which side can Promote first
Korchnoi wins the race promoting first WITH CHECK which decides the game

[Date "2015.4.18"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Conic Korchnoi"]
[Black "Novag Dynamic'S']
[Time Control "1 Min./Avg."]
[Result "1-0"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Bxe7 Nxe7 8.Nf3 Nbc6 9.Be2 f5 10.O-O a5 11.Qc2 Nb4 12.Qb3 Bd7 13.a3 Nbd5 14.Nxd5 Nxd5 15.Qxb7 Rb8 16.Qa6 Rxb2 17.Rab1 Ra2 18.Ra1 Rxa1 19.Rxa1
Nc3 20.Bd3 a4 21.Qc4 Nd5 22.Ne5 Qe7 23.Bc2 Rb8 24.Nxd7 Qxd7 25.Qxa4 Qxa4 26.Bxa4 f4 27.Bd7 Kf7 28.Re1 Ke7 29.Ba4 Ra8 30.Bc6 Rxa3
31.Bxd5 exd5 32.exf4+ Kd6 33.Rd1 Ra2 34.g3 Ke6 35.Re1+ Kf6 36.Rc1 Ra7 37.Kg2 Kf5 38.Re1 c6 39.Re5+ Kf6 40.Kf3 Ra3+ 41.Re3 Ra4
42.Rc3 Rc4 43.Rxc4 dxc4 44.Ke4 h5 45.d5 c3 46.Kd3 c2 47.Kxc2 cxd5 48.f3 Kf5 49.h4 Ke6 50.Kc3 Kd6 51.Kd4 g6 52.Ke3 Kc5 53.f5 gxf5
54.Kf4 d4 55.g4 d3 56.Ke3 fxg4 57.fxg4 hxg4 58.Kxd3 Kd5 59.h5 Ke5 60.h6 g3 61.h7 g2 62.h8=Q+ Kf4 63.Qh4+ Kf3 64.Qe1 Kg4 65.Qe3
Kh4 66.Ke4 Kg4 67.Qf3+ Kg5 68.Qxg2+ Kf6 69.Qd2 Ke7 70.Kf5 Kf7 71.Qd7+ Kf8 72.Kg6 Kg8 73.Qc8# 1-0

FINAL POSITION
[fen]2Q3k1/8/6K1/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 73[/fen]

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In The Second Game...
Korchnoi as black answers 1.e4 with the Caro-Kann but is out of book at move 2!
Dynamo completely outplays Korchnoi in the opening cracking open blacks's king side pawn cover saddling him with doubled h P's
at move 16 Korchnoi exchanges a N for 3 P's but with an exposed K side this proves to be a disastrous decision
Dynamo launches a full out assault against the exposed enemy K delivering mate at move 27
a crushing victory

[Date "2015.4.18"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Novag Dynamic'S']
[Black "Conic Korchnoi'']
[Time Control "1 Min./Avg."]
[Result "1-0"]


1.e4 c6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e5 Ng4 5.d4 d5 6.Bf4 Bb4+ 7.Nbd2 O-O 8.h3
Nh6 9.Bxh6 gxh6 10.a3 Be7 11.b4 a5 12.c5 Na6 13.b5 Nc7 14.a4 Bd7 15.b6
Na6 16.Be2 Nxc5 17.dxc5 Bxc5 18.O-O Qxb6 19.Rb1 Bb4 20.Nc4 Qc7 21.Ne3
Bc3 22.Qd3 Bb4 23.Ng4 Kg7 24.Qe3 b5 25.Qxh6+ Kh8 26.Ng5 bxa4 27.Qxh7#
1-0



FINAL POSITION
[fen]r4r1k/2qb1p1Q/2p1p3/p2pP1N1/pb4N1/7P/4BPP1/1R3RK1 w - - 0 27[/fen]

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If Dynamo won, your PGN Headers need correcting Steve :P
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spacious_mind wrote:If Dynamo won, your PGN Headers need correcting Steve :P
just corrected it
your too fast for me!
:P

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Steve B wrote:
spacious_mind wrote:If Dynamo won, your PGN Headers need correcting Steve :P
just corrected it
your too fast for me!
:P

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In The Third and Final Game...
Korchnoi is out of book first at move 7
Dynamo wins a P on move 22
Korchnoi allows a deadly Pin against his K on move 25 which
paralyzes Whites position resulting in the loss of heavy material
at move 40 Dynamo weaves an irresistible mating net to take the match 2-1



[Date "2015.4.18"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Conic Korchnoi"]
[Black "Novag Dynamic'S']
[Time Control "1 Min./Avg."]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.d5 Ne5 8.b3 e6
9.Nge2 Bd7 10.dxe6 fxe6 11.c5 Qe7 12.Bd4 b6 13.Bxe5 dxe5 14.cxb6 axb6
15.Ng3 c5 16.Bc4 Ra3 17.O-O Rfa8 18.h3 R8a5 19.Kh2 b5 20.Be2 b4 21.Na4
Bxa4 22.bxa4 R5xa4 23.Bb5 Ra5 24.Bc4 Bh6 25.Qe2 Bf4 26.Rf2 Nh5 27.Kg1
Nxg3 28.Qe1 Be3 29.Kh2 Bxf2 30.Qxf2 Nh5 31.Qb2 Qf6 32.Rd1 Qf4+ 33.Kg1
Qf6 34.Rd6 Nf4 35.Kh2 Rc3 36.Bb3 c4 37.Bc2 Qg5 38.Bb1 Re3 39.Qd2 Rc3
40.g3 Rxf3 41.Rd8+ Kg7 42.Qd7+ Kh6 43.gxf4 Qg3+ 44.Kh1 Rf1# 0-1

FINAL POSITION
[fen]3R4/3Q3p/4p1pk/r3p3/1pp1PP2/6qP/P7/1B3r1K w - - 0 45[/fen]

Victor Korchnoi himself ..after having viewed the last two games by the Conic.. has initiated a law suit against the former owners of Conic demanding to have his name disassociated from the computer and also insisting his signature be physically erased from each and every unit sold

Perhaps it would have been best had these computers remained ...

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Steve B wrote: Victor Korchnoi himself ..after having viewed the last two games by the Conic.. has initiated a law suit against the former owners of Conic demanding to have his name disassociated from the computer and also insisting his signature be physically erased from each and every unit sold
Forgot to tell you Steve, I transplanted a Mephisto Atlanta mainboard
into the Dynamic 'S' just before sending it... thought you'd appreciate it.
That explains the two impressive wins, but not the loss. Korchnoi would
be proud to have his name on the Conic after it's single win.
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Larry wrote:
Steve B wrote: Victor Korchnoi himself ..after having viewed the last two games by the Conic.. has initiated a law suit against the former owners of Conic demanding to have his name disassociated from the computer and also insisting his signature be physically erased from each and every unit sold
Forgot to tell you Steve, I transplanted a Mephisto Atlanta mainboard
into the Dynamic 'S' just before sending it... thought you'd appreciate it.
That explains the two impressive wins, but not the loss. Korchnoi would
be proud to have his name on the Conic after it's single win.
L

:P
you know for most folks An Atlanta inside the Dynamo would be a very welcomed surprise
for me it would be rejected as a
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I once owned a Novag Dynamic "S". I well remember that at the time the model came onto the market, funds were extremely limited and I could not stretch the extra $100 or so to get the Constellation. In hindsight I think I would have mowed lawns and picked up weeds for a whole year to have got the Constellation instead. After some experience with my Dynamic "S", I began to hypothesise as to what the "S" stood for. I came up with one possibility related to human waste matter which I don't think I should share explicitly on a family forum.
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Monsieur Plastique wrote:After some experience with my Dynamic "S", I began to hypothesise as to what the "S" stood for. I came up with one possibility related to human waste matter which I don't think I should share explicitly on a family forum.


The "S" designation appears several times throughout Dedicated Chess computer history

offhand i can think of the ..
Applied Concepts Capablanca "S" and Greunfeld "S" modules
the Mephisto Exclusive "S" and Munchen "S" boards
in these instances the "S" stood for improved or updated

my guess is the "S" for the Novag stands for Sensor
this was the third iteration in this housing for Novag
Super Sensor IV,Sensor Dynamic,Dynamic "S"
as it is ..the names were confusing so instead of calling it the Dynamic Sensor they used the "S"

After the history making publication here of the first games of the Dynamo (and its highly inconsistent level of play)another theory that has developed and gained prominence recently in the academic world(most notably in recent debates held between Oxford and Cambridge universities) is that the S stands for....

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Steve,

If you still have the Dynamic "S", perhaps you can check something out for me that has "bugged" me for 30 years please. Can you please play with the machine in a darkened room and tell me if you see the various LEDs around the board very slightly flickering? As if they have very small amounts of current going through them that is constantly varying?

This was a characteristic of my machine and it was the only Novag Cameron or I ever possessed that did this. The Constellations / Super Constellations never did it - the LEDs were always either 100% on or 100% off - this mild flickering characteristic was only seen in the Dynamic "S".
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Just tried it
actually the 1-8 LEDS do in fact flicker slightly when the computer is waiting for the player to move
not when it is computing its move
The a-h LEDS dont flicker at all
i would have never noticed that...but then again i tend not to play in total darkness
:P

Amazing that you would remember that

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Post by Monsieur Plastique »

Ah, that is good to know. Thanks Steve. Strike another one off the bucket list :lol: Seriously though, all these years I had wondered whether there was something wrong with my Dynamic "S". Now I know there isn't. Or perhaps more accurately, it performs according to manufacturer's specs (arguably two different things).
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Wonderful thread.

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