Ufim 8.02+Mephisto London 030 vs. CCC Forum Chess960

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Steve B
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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Well we have about 5 Hrs To Go To Tc and there are 3 votes to declare the game drawn
The votes are from the core team players who have voted each day ..move after move ..and without whom we would probably still be back on move 15
:P

Unless we see 4 votes to continue the game in the next 5 Hrs(from players who have voted before) the game will be declared drawn and i will unmask the identity of the MDC
If you vote to continue the game please do so with the intention of participating in the game on a daily basis going forward as it would be a bit absurd for someone to vote to play on and then not vote for future moves

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Steve
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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The Game is declared a draw

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 608#300608

Congrats to the Forum players who have drawn with the strongest Mephisto dedicated chess computer ever released for sale..
The London 68030

At 3 minutes per move The London Modules have an Elo Rating of 2302(Selective Search)
during the match i let the computer think on Avg.about 6-8 Hrs. per move ..sometimes a bit less and sometimes a bit more
so i would imagine that the actual strength of the computer the forum faced was probably somewhere between 2350-2375 perhaps even 2400

Just recently a London 030 sold on Ebay for over $2100(1480 Euro)

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 05153.html


i would like to thank all those for participating in the game with a special thanks to Ray Banks who introduced many of us to the great format of Chess960

Happy Holidays To All And To All A ..
Happy New Year! Regards
Steve
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Graham Banks
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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Steve B wrote: i would like to thank all those for participating in the game with a special thanks to Ray Banks who introduced many of us to the great format of Chess960

Happy Holidays To All And To All A ..
Happy New Year! Regards
Steve
Thanks Steve. :)
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Matthias Gemuh
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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1) Thanks Steve and Ray for your time and hardware.

2) Thanks to all others who participated or regularly watched.


Matthias.
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Carlos777
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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Thanks Steve, Ray and all the guys that participated for a good game. I had fun playing with you.

Best,
Carlos
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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Steve B wrote:The Game is declared a draw

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 608#300608

Congrats to the Forum players who have drawn with the strongest Mephisto dedicated chess computer ever released for sale..
The London 68030

At 3 minutes per move The London Modules have an Elo Rating of 2302(Selective Search)
during the match i let the computer think on Avg.about 6-8 Hrs. per move ..sometimes a bit less and sometimes a bit more
so i would imagine that the actual strength of the computer the forum faced was probably somewhere between 2350-2375 perhaps even 2400

Just recently a London 030 sold on Ebay for over $2100(1480 Euro)

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 05153.html


i would like to thank all those for participating in the game with a special thanks to Ray Banks who introduced many of us to the great format of Chess960

Happy Holidays To All And To All A ..
Happy New Year! Regards
Steve
Steve I admire your extreme patience and dedication for 40 something days.

Also a very another very nice computer that you have there!

best regards

Nick
Steve B
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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Spacious_Mind wrote:
Steve I admire your extreme patience and dedication for 40 something days.

Also a very another very nice computer that you have there!

best regards

Nick
Thanks for the kind words Nick
especially coming from you ..The GrandMaster of organizing and running Dedicated Chess Computer Tournaments
:P

the real praise though belongs to the forum players who showed up each day to vote for moves
in fact they had more patience then i did because they were here from move 1 whereas i only joined the game at move 11 after Ufim had Castled

during the first 10 moves i was goofing off playing with the Peri Epsilon...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 922174174/

Regards From Austria
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Spacious_Mind
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Re: The Third Forum Game

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Steve B wrote:
Spacious_Mind wrote:
Steve I admire your extreme patience and dedication for 40 something days.

Also a very another very nice computer that you have there!

best regards

Nick
Thanks for the kind words Nick
especially coming from you ..The GrandMaster of organizing and running Dedicated Chess Computer Tournaments
:P

the real praise though belongs to the forum players who showed up each day to vote for moves
in fact they had more patience then i did because they were here from move 1 whereas i only joined the game at move 11 after Ufim had Castled

during the first 10 moves i was goofing off playing with the Peri Epsilon...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 922174174/

Regards From Austria
Steve
You shure know how to turn someone's face green with envy :) Another superbly nice and rare computer you have there.

Christimas Vacation in Austria! Sounds like another Griswold's movie :P

Best regards

Nick
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Re: The Third Forum Game

Post by gerold »

Thanks Steve for sticking with the game and making it a nice
game.
Thanks to all the players and to the Banks brothers who made
the game special.

Happy New Year to all,

Gerold.

P.S. Next year next game. :)