Hiarcs at the World Championships in Tilburg

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:09 am

Good luck to Hans who is operating for us in Tillburg. I will post all the Hiarcs games in this thread and any other bits of news. Hans will also post his daily Diary.

The official website is http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=239

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:46 am

I am told there should be a live relay at http://www.digitalgametechnology.com/Ch ... 11/tfd.htm

The schedule is here http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/f ... hedule.pdf

Post by **Steve B** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:54 am

Best Of Luck To Hiarcs as it shoots for its second World Title in 4 years

Best Regards
Steve

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:01 pm

round 1

[Event "19th WCCC 2011"]
[Site "Tilburg/The Netherlands"]
[Date "2011.11.19"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Jonny"]
[Black "Hiarcs"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D53"]
[Annotator "Robot 3"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "2011.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nc3 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. Qc2 dxc4 8.
e3 c5 9. dxc5 Qa5 10. Bxc4 Qxc5 11. Ne4 Qa5+ 12. Ke2 Be7 13. Rhd1 O-O 14. Qc3
Qxc3 15. Nxc3 Nd7 16. Rac1 Rd8 17. h3 a6 18. Bd3 Nc5 19. Bb1 Bd7 20. Bc2 Be8
21. Rxd8 Rxd8 22. a3 Bf6 23. Nd4 Bxd4 24. exd4 Rxd4 25. b4 Nd7 26. Be4 b6 27.
Ke3 Rd6 28. Bb7 Nb8 29. Ne4 Rd8 30. h4 f5 31. Nd2 Kf8 32. f4 Bb5 33. Rc3 Nd7
34. Nf3 Ke7 35. Nd4 Nf6 36. Nxb5 axb5 37. Rc7+ Rd7 38. Rxd7+ Kxd7 39. Bf3 g6
40. Kd4 Ne8 41. Ke5 Ke7 42. Be2 Nd6 43. Kd4 Kf8 44. Ke5 Ke7 45. Kd4 Kd8 46. Bd3
Kd7 47. Be2 Ke7 48. h5 gxh5 49. Bxh5 Kf6 50. Be2 Kf7 51. Bh5+ Ke7 52. Be2 Kf7
53. Kc3 Kf8 54. Kd4 1/2-1/2

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:28 pm

Nr White Black Result
1 Jonny Hiarcs .....
2 Hiarcs Rookie .....
3 The Baron Hiarcs .....
4 Hiarcs Booot .....
5 Hiarcs Woodpusher .....
6 Hiarcs Bye
7 Shredder Hiarcs .....
8 Pandix Hiarcs .....
9 Hiarcs Junior .....

The Hiarcs pairings.

After round 1:

1 Junior 1.0
2 Jonny 0.5
3 Rookie 3.4 0.5
4 The Baron 0.5
5 Booot 0.5
6 Shredder 0.5
7 Hiarcs 0.5
8 Pandix 0.0
9 Woodpusher 1997 0.0

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:49 pm

I just heard that jonny is on 800 cores.

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:18 pm

Round 2

[Event "WCCC Tillburg R2"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.11.19"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Hiarcs"]
[Black "Rookie"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[Annotator "HarveyWilliamson"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
Na5 9. Bc2 c5 10. d4 Qc7 11. Nbd2 cxd4 12. cxd4 O-O 13. b3 Nc6 14. Bb2 Nb4 15.
Bb1 Nc6 16. a4 Bd7 17. Qc2 Qb6 18. axb5 axb5 19. Rxa8 Rxa8 20. dxe5 Nb4 21. Qd1
dxe5 22. Bxe5 Bc5 23. Qe2 Nh5 24. h3 g6 25. g4 f6 26. Bh2 Ng7 27. Bg3 Re8 28.
Rc1 Rc8 29. Nf1 Ne6 30. Ne3 Bc6 31. g5 $1 fxg5 32. Ng4 Rf8 33. Be5 h6 34. Ba1
h5 35. Nf6+ Rxf6 36. Bxf6 Qc7 37. Rxc5 Nxc5 38. Bc3 g4 39. Qe3 Nba6 40. b4 gxf3
41. bxc5 Kf8 42. Qg5 Ke8 43. Qxg6+ 1-0

Hans van der Zijden · Post by **Hans van der Zijden** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:01 pm

Since Rybka is no longer allowed to participate, I thought I would just visit the WCCC just once or twice for pictures and an interview or two. So when Harvey couldn’t get a week off from work, I gladly accepted his offer to operate Hiarcs. That’s why there is another diary this year.

Saturday november 19
I wanted to sleep a lot the night before the tournament would start. But I had to answer some e-mails late at night and do some last minute downloads. When everything finally worked as wanted, time had progressed 1 hour and I was wide awake. I had quite a restless night.

I was only 14 minutes late picking up Harm Geert Muller, who is going to Tilburg for the Chinese Chess and the Shogi tournament. His programs is going for the medals. Okay, there are only 3 competitors in the Chinese Chess and 2 in the Shogi, but still. We talked all the way so time seemed to pass by quickly. We arrived at the university at 10:00. And then it took us only 45 minutes more to find the right building. It turned out the building was not on the campus itself. Someone told us it was on a street outside at nr. 36. We found another university building, but that wasn’t it. We also knew we had to look for a building with red bricks. We passed it earlier because we were looking to the wrong side of the street. It was nr. 35, not 36.

I quickly installed myself (and my laptop), did some last tests and was ready before the official opening. First round Hiarcs had black against Jonny. White gives away a pawn and Johannes has no idea why. Jonny is still quite happy, Hiarcs has evals between -0.5 and -0.7. But there is no progress and scores goes slowly to 0.00. The draw is inevitable. In the second round Jonny again loses a pawn. This time against Woodpusher and in the opening already: 1.Nf3 g5?? Again a big questionmark above the head of Johannes. Richard Pijl (The Baron) discovered that this opening was played twice in his database and black scored 75%. That is probably why the move was not filtered out. Jonny won the game anyway, because Woodpusher is not a very strong program. It made me think of a tonguebreaker: How much wood would a woodpecker peck if a woodpecker would peck wood? Maybe we should change that to: How much wood would a Woodpusher lose if a Woodpusher would push wood?

The second round Hiarcs finished quickly, which allowed me to finish this first report. Now it is off to home for some well needed sleep. I am not staying in a hotel, because my cat doesn’t like me to be away for a long time. So I will drive 2½ hours per day. I hope I can stay focussed the whole week.

RadioSmall · Post by **RadioSmall** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:47 pm

Harvey Williamson wrote:I just heard that jonny is on 800 cores.

And what hardware is Hiarcs using??

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:53 pm

RadioSmall wrote:
Harvey Williamson wrote:I just heard that jonny is on 800 cores.
And what hardware is Hiarcs using??

12x4.25

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:06 am

R3 v the baron about to start.

Here are the standings:

1 Hiarcs 0,5 1,5
2 Jonny 0,5 1,5
3 Shredder 0,5 1,5
4 Junior 1,0 1,5
5 Pandix 0,0 0,5
6 Rookie 3.4 0,5 0,5
7 The Baron 0,5 0,5
8 Booot 0,5 0,5
9 Woodpusher 1997 0,0 0,0

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:37 pm

R3 was a very lucky draw v The baron. i will post the game later.

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 1:45 pm

[Event "WCCC Tilburg 2011"]
[Site "Tilburg"]
[Date "2011.11.20"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "The Baron"]
[Black "Hiarcs"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[PlyCount "176"]
[EventDate "2011.??.??"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Be3
h5 9. Qd2 Nbd7 10. Nd5 Bxd5 11. exd5 g6 12. Be2 Bg7 13. O-O O-O 14. Na5 Qc7 15.
c4 e4 16. f4 Ng4 17. Bxg4 hxg4 18. Rad1 Nc5 19. f5 Nd3 20. f6 Bh8 21. b4 Qd7
22. Qc3 Rfe8 23. Bd4 Rac8 24. Rd2 b5 25. Nc6 Rxc6 26. dxc6 Qxc6 27. cxb5 Qxc3
28. Bxc3 axb5 29. a4 bxa4 30. b5 Rb8 31. Rb1 Kh7 32. b6 g5 33. Ra2 Kg6 34. Rxa4
Nc5 35. Rd4 Kxf6 36. Rxe4+ Kg6 37. Rc4 Bxc3 38. Rxc3 f5 39. Ra3 Kf6 40. Ra7 Nb7
41. Kf2 Ke6 42. Re1+ Kf6 43. Rea1 Nc5 44. Rb1 Nb7 45. Kg1 Ke6 46. Re1+ Kf6 47.
Re2 Nc5 48. Rb2 Nb7 49. Kf1 Ke6 50. Re2+ Kf6 51. Rea2 Nc5 52. Rb2 Nb7 53. Rb1
Ke5 54. Ra2 Nc5 55. Ra3 Kd5 56. Ra7 Nb7 57. Rb5+ Ke6 58. Ra1 Nc5 59. Rb2 Kf6
60. Ra7 Nb7 61. Rb1 Ke6 62. Re1+ Kf6 63. Rd1 Ke6 64. Rda1 Nc5 65. Rb1 Nd7 66.
Re1+ Ne5 67. Ra6 Kd5 68. Ra5+ Ke6 69. Rb5 Rb7 70. Ra1 Nd7 71. Ra6 Kf6 72. Kf2
Kg6 73. Ke2 Kf6 74. Kf2 Kg6 75. Kg1 Kf6 76. Kf1 Ke6 77. Kf2 Kf6 78. Kf1 Ke6 79.
Kf2 Kf6 80. Ke1 Ke6 81. Kf1 Kf6 82. Ke2 Ke6 83. Kd2 Ne5 84. Ke2 Nc6 85. Kf2 Nd4
86. Ra7 Rb8 87. Rb1 Nc6 88. Rc7 Nb4 1/2-1/2

Post by **Harvey Williamson** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:08 pm

3/4

[Event "WCCC"]
[Site "Tilburg"]
[Date "2011.11.20"]
[Round "4"]
[White "HIARCS 13.317x64 MP"]
[Black "Booot"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D17"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[TimeControl "6300+5"]

{256MB, wcccbook2.ctg, Harvey} 1. d4 {B 0} d5 {7} 2. c4 {0.01/0 0} c6 {6} 3.
Nf3 {0.01/0 0} Nf6 {7} 4. Nc3 {0.01/0 0} dxc4 {6} 5. a4 {0.01/0 0} Bf5 {7} 6.
Ne5 {0.01/0 0} Nbd7 {7} 7. Nxc4 {0.01/0 0} Nb6 {6} 8. Ne5 {0.01/0 0} e6 {6} 9.
f3 {0.01/0 0} Nfd7 {8} 10. a5 {0.01/0 0} Nxe5 {7} 11. axb6 {0.01/0 0} Nd7 {8}
12. e4 {0.01/0 0} Bg6 {7} 13. Rxa7 {0.01/0 0} Nxb6 {8} 14. Rxb7 {0.01/0 0} Be7
{248} 15. Be2 {0.71/25 269} Rb8 {270 (Ra1)} 16. Rxb8 {0.95/26 306} Qxb8 {210}
17. O-O {0.96/27 0} O-O {519} 18. Qb3 {1.00/27 0} h6 {223 (Nd7)} 19. Be3 {1.09/
26 184} Nd7 {24} 20. Bc4 {1.18/26 153} Kh7 {316 (Qd6)} 21. Qxb8 {1.22/24 152}
Rxb8 {192} 22. Na4 {1.31/27 0} e5 {228 (Rd8)} 23. Rd1 {1.26/26 133} exd4 {14}
24. Bxd4 {1.31/27 194} f6 {24} 25. Be3 {1.31/27 114} Be8 {266 (Ne5)} 26. Be6 {
1.40/26 157} Nf8 {180 (Rb7)} 27. Bf5+ {1.45/28 190} g6 {13 (Kg8)} 28. Bh3 {1.
46/28 158} Rb5 {45} 29. Rd2 {1.42/27 105} Ra5 {96 (Kg7)} 30. Nb6 {1.56/27 115}
Kg7 {139 (Ra1+)} 31. Nc8 {1.77/27 168} Bc5 {262} 32. Kf2 {1.74/31 0} Bxe3+ {165
} 33. Kxe3 {1.75/29 0} f5 {178 (Bf7)} 34. exf5 {1.77/27 276} gxf5 {180} 35. b4
{1.94/28 0} Ra3+ {137} 36. Kf4 {1.81/28 0} Ra4 {167 (Rb3)} 37. Bxf5 {1.97/27 97
} Rxb4+ {111} 38. Ke3 {1.97/27 0} Rb3+ {113 (Ra4)} 39. Kf2 {1.88/27 113} Bg6 {
132 (h5)} 40. Ne7 {2.62/27 93} c5 {41} 41. Rd6 {2.71/28 49} Bh7 {154 (Bf7)} 42.
Bxh7 {3.06/28 88} Kxh7 {122} 43. Nf5 {3.09/30 0} h5 {107} 44. Rh6+ {3.26/29 0}
Kg8 {58} 45. Rxh5 {3.26/29 0} Ne6 {75 (Nd7)} 46. Rh4 {3.42/28 102} Rb2+ {126}
47. Kg3 {3.60/28 0} Kf7 {112 (Rb6)} 48. Re4 {3.85/25 43} Ng5 {93 (Rb4)} 49.
Nd6+ {5.34/29 132} Kf6 {113} 50. Rc4 {5.58/29 0} Ne6 {98 (Rb6)} 51. Ne4+ {5.77/
28 97} Ke5 {110} 52. Nxc5 {5.93/28 0} Kd5 {81} 53. Na4 {5.95/28 0} Rxg2+ {86
(Rb3)} 54. Kxg2 {#34/27 78} 1-0

Hans van der Zijden · Post by **Hans van der Zijden** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:31 pm

Sunday november 20
Again a short night. The alarm woke me up at 6:30. Probably because I programmed it that way. Last night I gave Harm Geert a 15 minute window in which I would pick him up. Made it with a few minutes to spare. One hour long we ride in one of the thickest fogs I have ever encountered. Most cars were going pretty slow. I can’t afford to lose too much time. Near Tilburg is a fairytale amusementpark called “De Efteling”. That’s exactly where the fog clears. A pity, it would have looked enchanting.

Third round against the Baron. Richard brought his children to distract me. They only distract me from falling asleep. Still Hiarcs has a lost position right after the opening with a trapped bishop. Computers don’t notice that and too easily The Baron lets the bishop out of its cage. The evaluation is +2.5, but the Baron can’t see any progress and a bug in the 50-move-rule code abruptly ends the boring game.

But we are outbored by the game between Booot and Shredder. Shredder however has no bug with the 50-move-rule and eventually wins.

In round 4 Hiarcs gets out of book a pawn ahead. I don’t understand all these bad booklines. It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a program to analyze all lines and delete the bad ones. Hiarcs steadily improves its positions and wins. Three out of four, but we still have to play all the big names.