M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament...

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Alibaba
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M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament...

Post by Alibaba »

Hi,

i'm happy to have Gandalf this interesting program now in the tournament.
Gandalf is playing with 256 MB Hash and it's own book....

The 1. Game of the Match vs M-Chess Pro 7.1 just started....
live broadcast on chessbase server....

Kind
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Andi
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Alibaba »

Hi,

Gandalf won the 1. game.
Very strong play of Gandalf....

Now the 2. Game is running...
Live broadcast on chessbase server

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Andi
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Alibaba »

pgn of game 1:



M-Chess Pro 7.1 - Gandalf 4.32f [B34]
100'/40+60'/40+20' Microsoft (1), 13.05.2010

256MB, Nimzo8.ctg 1.e4 c5 0.00/1 0 2.Se2 (Sf3) 2...g6 0.00/1 0 3.d4 cxd4 0.00/1 0 4.Sxd4 Sc6 0.00/1 0 5.Sc3 (c4) 5...Lg7 0.00/1 0 6.Sde2 (Le3) 6...b6 0.00/1 0 7.Sg3 (g3) 7...Lxc3+ -0.08/13 4:17 8.bxc3 Dc7 -0.03/13 5:34 9.Lb5 Sf6 0.00/12 2:37 10.0-0 0-0 -0.04/12 0 11.Lh6 Te8 -0.12/12 1 12.f4 (f3) 12...d6 -0.06/12 3:02 13.f5 (Lg5) 13...Ld7 -0.41/12 2:30 14.a4 (fxg6) 14...Se5 -0.48/12 3:01 15.Dd4 Tec8 -0.48/11 2:10 16.fxg6 (Ld2) 16...hxg6 -0.68/13 3:05 17.Ld2 (Lg5) 17...Lxb5 -0.84/14 6:17 18.axb5 Db7 -0.89/14 3:31 19.Lg5 (Ta4) 19...Tc4 -1.18/14 2:25 20.Dd2 (Df2) 20...Sxe4 -1.36/14 3:01 21.Sxe4 Txe4 -1.50/14 6:27 22.Lf4 Tc8 -1.50/13 2:50 23.Le3 (Df2) 23...Tg4 -2.48/14 2:44 24.Ld4 (Df2) 24...Sf3+ -3.48/14 3:37 25.Txf3 Dxf3 -3.24/15 3:51 26.Txa7 e5 -3.24/14 0 27.Lxb6 Tcc4 -4.00/13 0 28.Kh1 (Ta1) 28...Df1+ -3.45/13 4:24 29.Lg1 Tce4 -3.45/14 2:44 30.Df2 Tgf4 -3.55/15 2:30 31.Dxf1 Txf1 -3.76/16 31 32.b6 (h3) 32...Tee1 -3.60/15 2:25 33.h4 Txg1+ -3.80/14 0 34.Kh2 Th1+ -3.72/15 3:41 35.Kg3 Te3+ -3.58/15 1:57 36.Kf2 Txc3 -3.56/16 0 37.Tc7 Tc5 -3.60/17 3:06 38.b7 Tb1 -3.66/18 0 39.Tc8+ Kg7 -3.66/18 2:50 40.b8D Txb8 -3.66/16 0 41.Txb8 Txc2+ -3.74/15 2:29 42.Kf1 (Kf3) 42...Kf6 -4.01/15 1:59 43.Td8 Ke7 -4.12/15 32 44.Ta8 e4 -4.14/14 1:27 45.Ta7+ (Ta5) 45...Ke6 -4.17/15 2:39 46.Ta6 Ke5 -4.17/14 0 47.Ta3 (Ta7) 47...d5 -5.72/14 1:27 48.g3 d4 -5.92/14 0 49.Ta5+ Ke6 -6.14/14 0 50.Ta8 Kd5 -6.88/13 0 51.h5 (Ta5+) 51...gxh5 -8.28/13 1:55 0-1
Alibaba
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Alibaba »

Hi,

M-Chess won the 2. game...with a killer opening line leading to a clear better endgame...

Standing:

M-Chess Pro 7.1 - Gandalf 4.32f

1 - 1

The 3. game will be played tomorrow...

Regards
Andi
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Alibaba »

Hi,

Gandalf won the 3. Game.

Standing:

M-Chess Pro 7.1 - Gandalf 4.32f

1 - 2

now the 4. game is running, live broadcast on chessbase server.....

Regards
Andi
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Alibaba »

Hi,

the 4. game was draw.
So the final standing is:

M-Chess Pro 7.1 - Gandalf 4.32f

1,5 - 2,5

now Gandalf is qualified to play the next match vs M-Chess Pro 8.0
The 1. game of the match will be started in about 15 min....

live broadcast on chessbase server....

Regards
Andi
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Sean Evans »

Hi,

Question for you, was M-Chess ever released as a UCI engine I can use in a different front-end GUI, like Winboard or Chessbase?

I use to own M-Chess 5.0 and it was a DOS program.

Thank you,

Sean
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Guenther »

Sean Evans wrote:Hi,

Question for you, was M-Chess ever released as a UCI engine I can use in a different front-end GUI, like Winboard or Chessbase?

I use to own M-Chess 5.0 and it was a DOS program.

Thank you,

Sean
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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Alibaba »

no yet,

marty is working on a Mchess UCI engine.
I hope it will be released end of this year....

All other version are DOS programs..

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Re: M-Chess vs World 2: Gandalf 4.32f entered the tournament

Post by Alibaba »

Hi,

M-Chess Pro 8.0 won the 1. game of the match.

Regards
Andi