Stockfish wins CCC 3: Stage 1 only after last 60th game

[Jouni]

90 threads no book

[pgn] [Event "CCC 3: Rapid Redux (30|5)"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2018.12.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Stockfish 18112008"] [Black "Houdini 6.03"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C05"] [WhiteElo "3439"] [BlackElo "3400"] [PlyCount "123"] [EventDate "2018.??.??"] [TimeControl "1800+5"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. c3 Nc6 7. Bd3 g6 8. h4 Qb6 9. h5 g5 10. Nxg5 cxd4 11. cxd4 Qxd4 12. Ndf3 Qb4+ 13. Bd2 Qxb2 14. Rb1 Qxa2 15. Nxh7 Be7 16. O-O Nc5 17. Bc2 Ne4 18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. Nfg5 Qd5 20. Nf6+ Bxf6 21. exf6 b6 22. Rc1 Bd7 23. Re1 a5 24. Qg4 e5 25. Qd1 Bf5 26. g4 Be6 27. Rxe4 O-O-O 28. Qf3 Kb7 29. Nxe6 Qxe6 30. Be3 Qd5 31. g5 Rd6 32. h6 Nb4 33. g6 fxg6 34. f7 Rf8 35. h7 Nc6 36. h8=R Rxf7 37. Qg4 Rfd7 38. Rec4 Qe6 39. Qe4 Qf5 40. Qg2 e4 41. Rxe4 Qd5 42. Bf4 Rf6 43. Qg4 Qf5 44. Qe2 Qd5 45. Bg3 b5 46. Ree8 a4 47. Ra8 Kb6 48. f4 Kb7 49. Bf2 Rxf4 50. Rhb8+ Kc7 51. Rxc6+ Kxc6 52. Qc2+ Qc4 53. Rc8+ Kd6 54. Rxc4 Rxc4 55. Qxg6+ Kd5 56. Qf5+ Kd6 57. Ra6+ Rc6 58. Bc5+ Kc7 59. Ra7+ Kb8 60. Qf8+ Rd8 61. Qxd8+ Rc8 62. Qb6# 1-0 [/pgn]

Game is already won after 14.-Qxa2 probably!? SF opened in CCC 3 mostly with e4 now.

[IanO]

Five rooks on the board! Very nice game, nice to see a bookless French that isn't the Exchange variation.

[jdart]

Are the stage 3 games available somewhere?

There seems to be no "archive" on the chess.com/ccc page, and chess.com main page has no mention of the tournament at all, that I could find.

--Jon

[Uri Blass]

http://lordjava.com/ComputerChessChampionship/index.php

Note that for some reason stockfish played 62 games and not 60 games

http://lordjava.com/ComputerChessChampi ... hp?event=7

[jdart]

Thanks but PGN link did not work for me.

--Jon

[arunsoorya1309]

We will upload it shortly

[corres]

This competition was arranged for the pleasure of Leela Chess Zero.
The short time control, setting off the opening book (as Google team did it) the rules of game endings give
advantage for LC0 over the AB engines. It is characteristic Leela was not able to restrict the Three Great in this beneficial circumstances either.
Every NN-type chess engine know positions what are in NN only.
So if the developers of Leela want to make a really strong (stronger the Stockfish) chess engine they have to grow up the size of NN and running self play game using bug free soft wares.
Until the chess knowledge of this new, bigger(!) NN will not surpass the net of 11248 in real(!) Elo, we should not hope better results from Leela.

[Dann Corbit]

We will upload it shortly

I have never been able to download any games from your site except 1 file called CCC_Bonus_WCC_Game12_drawn.pgn
I get errors or nothing on all the other links, generally with this message:

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[arunsoorya1309]

We are migrating to newer infrastructure. The archive page will be updated once stage2 starts to get all links to point to the new pgn location

[M ANSARI]

I am probably missing something ... but is there really an advantage to promoting with a rook rather than a queen? I can see how it would be an advantage if stalemate was an issue but it doesn't seem to be in this case?