WChess 1.06 beats Komodo with beautiful technique!

[BrendanJNorman]

..well...

It's only Komodo 1.0, but a 2330 engine making a 2900 engine look silly in the endgame, despite being heavily out searched it so impressive.

I've always loved WChess and even drew a 45 45 game as black against it which I should have won (had a won rook ending but didn't trust myself) once.

Here's his beautiful technical win over Komodo.

Komodo misjudges a tactical sequence and WChess responds by going into an exchange down, knight and pawns vs rooks ending in which his technique is impressive.

[pgn][Event "First CnC Rated Blitz"]
[Site "BRENDANNORMD8A2"]
[Date "2017.11.17"]
[Round "1"]
[White "WChess 1.06"]
[Black "Komodo 1.0"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "1999"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "149"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. c4
Nf6 9. h3 Be6 10. c5 b6 11. cxb6 axb6 12. Nc3 c5 13. Bg5 h6 14. Bf4 Nc6 15. Bb5
Nxd4 16. Nxd4 cxd4 17. Ne2 Bc5 18. Nxd4 Bd7 19. Bxd7 Qxd7 20. Qd3 Rfe8 21. Be3
Re7 22. Rfe1 Ne4 23. Re2 f5 24. b3 Rae8 25. Rae1 Bd6 26. Bd2 Kh7 27. Bc3 Qc7
28. Nxf5 Bh2+ 29. Kf1 Rf7 30. Rxe4 dxe4 31. Rxe4 Rxe4 32. Qxe4 Qf4 33. Nd6+
Qxe4 34. Nxe4 Re7 35. f3 Be5 36. Bxe5 Rxe5 37. Ke2 Kg6 38. a4 Kf5 39. Ke3 Re8
40. b4 Ra8 41. Nc3 Rd8 42. g4+ Kg5 43. Ke4 Re8+ 44. Kd4 Re6 45. Nd5 Kh4 46. Nf4
Rd6+ 47. Ke5 Rc6 48. Ne6 g5 49. f4 gxf4 50. Nxf4 Rc4 51. Nd5 Kxh3 52. Kd6 Rc1
53. Nxb6 Kxg4 54. Nd5 h5 55. Nf6+ Kg5 56. Nxh5 Kxh5 57. b5 Rc4 58. a5 Rd4+ 59.
Kc5 Ra4 60. a6 Kg6 61. Kb6 Rf4 62. a7 Rf8 63. Ka6 Kh5 64. b6 Rg8 65. b7 Rg6+
66. Kb5 Rg5+ 67. Kc4 Rg4+ 68. Kd3 Rg3+ 69. Ke4 Rg4+ 70. Kf3 Rg7 71. a8=Q Rf7+
72. Ke4 Re7+ 73. Kf5 Rf7+ 74. Ke6 Rxb7 75. Qxb7 1-0[/pgn]

I have to say that Dave Kittinger was really a talented guy, and I wish more of his work was available as UCI.

If anybody would like WChess 1.06 (its tough to find sometimes), let me know and I'll hook up up.

Brendan

[reflectionofpower]

Dave sure was a talented programmer. I always loved WChess's tactical & it's endgame technique was unique yet strong so it did not surprise me that it beat another program in an endgame.

[mephisto]

Hi Brendan

I have a copy of WChess2K (WChess2000) that runs perfectly under ChessGenius Classic which is stronger than WChess 1.6

Regards
Bryan

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Brendan,

a great program ... with Kallisto, Zarkov one of my favorite older chess programs. Nice combination allways possible ... of course vs. clearly stronger engines too.



Best
Frank