2 games: Century 4 v SOS 2002

[Dayffd]

A tournament having just been completed, I took a glance _way_ down my computer games collection and stopped at Century 4 v. SOS. I did not recall the name Century 4, but saw it had defeated SOS 59 - 21. So I took a quick look at the first two games. I was impressed; C4 had a very nice attacking style, kind of reminding me a bit of R. Fischer or maybe M. Tal. So I looked for this engine (google)...ah ha! Rebel stable. I think I have, or should have, this engine as it is am early version of Rebel, and while looking at my lists, etc., hmmm apparently I've not even had Gandalf 5.1 play in one of my tournaments - but that is neither here nor there. Anyways, take a look at these two games; they are enjoyable, and are from the SSDF database. The second game was blunder checked by Hiarcs 13.2 this morning.

[Event "Century4-SOS"]
[Site "SSDF"]
[Date "2002.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "SOS"]
[Black "Century4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2002.01.11"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Nd5 f5 11. c3 Bg7 12. exf5 Bxf5 13. Nc2 Be6 14. Nce3
Ne7 15. g3 Nxd5 16. Nxd5 O-O 17. Bg2 a5 18. O-O Rb8 19. Qh5 f5 20. Rad1 Kh8 21.
Rd2 Bf7 22. Qh3 Bg6 23. Rfd1 f4 24. gxf4 exf4 25. Kh1 Bf5 26. Qh5 Bg6 27. Qg4
Be5 28. Rg1 Rg8 29. Qe2 Bf7 30. Rdd1 Qh4 31. f3 Be6 32. Rd2 Qh6 33. Ne7 Rg5 34.
Qd1 a4 35. Nc6 Rbg8 36. Re1 Bxa2 37. Rf2 Qh4 38. Qd2 Rh5 39. Bf1 Qg3 40. Rg2
Qxf3 41. Nb4 Bc4 42. Kg1 Rhg5 43. Rxg5 Rxg5+ 44. Bg2 Qh5 45. Rxe5 dxe5 46. Nd3
f3 47. Ne1 fxg2 48. Qd8+ Kg7 49. h3 h6 50. Qd7+ Kh8 51. Qd8+ Kh7 52. Qd7+ Rg7
53. Qd2 Qxh3 54. Nxg2 Bd3 55. Qf2 Be4 56. Kf1 Rxg2 57. Qa7+ Rg7+ 58. Ke2 Rxa7
59. b3 Qf3+ 60. Kd2 Rd7+ 61. Ke1 Rd1# 0-1

[Event "Century4-SOS"]
[Site "SSDF"]
[Date "2002.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Century4"]
[Black "SOS"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B47"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2002.01.11"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. g3 Nc6 7. Bg2 Nf6 8. O-O
Be7 9. Re1 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Bc5 11. Bf4 {last book move} Qb6 {[%eval 108,16]} 12.
Qd2 {[%eval 100,15]} Ng4 {[%eval 125,15]} 13. Rf1 {[%eval 135,16]} Nxf2 {
[%eval 150,17]} 14. Rxf2 {[%eval 150,17]} Bxf2+ {[%eval 128,20]} 15. Qxf2 {
[%eval 148,18]} Qxb2 {[%eval 128,18]} 16. Qe1 {[%eval 175,16]} f6 {
[%eval 227,17]} ({HIARCS 13.2 MP:} 16... Qb6+ 17. Kh1 d6 18. Rb1 Qc6 19. Nd5 b5
20. c4 {[%eval 175,16]}) 17. Rb1 {[%eval 204,17]} Qa3 {[%eval 222,18]} 18. Qd2
{[%eval 230,16]} Qc5+ {[%eval 270,18]} 19. Kh1 {[%eval 274,16]} e5 {
[%eval 325,18]} 20. Be3 {[%eval 325,18]} Qc6 {[%eval 325,17]} 21. Nd5 {
[%eval 325,17]} b5 {[%eval 325,16]} 22. Rb3 {[%eval 328,17]} Qd6 {
[%eval 392,17]} 23. Rc3 {[%eval 386,19]} Kf7 {[%eval 386,18]} 24. Bc5 {
[%eval 386,17]} Qc6 {[%eval 386,17]} 25. Bh3 {[%eval 385,16]} a5 {
[%eval 524,16]} ({HIARCS 13.2 MP:} 25... d6 26. Bxd6 Qxd6 27. Rc7+ Qxc7 28.
Nxc7 {[%eval 385,16]}) 26. Be7 {[%eval 900,15]} Qa6 {[%eval 901,16]} 27. Rf3 {
[%eval 901,16]} h6 {[%eval 1641,13]} ({HIARCS 13.2 MP:} 27... Kg6 28. Nxf6 gxf6
29. Bxf6 Qxf6 30. Rxf6+ Kxf6 31. Qd6+ Kf7 32. Qd5+ Kf6 33. Qxa8 Re8 34. Qb8 b4
35. Qb6+ {[%eval 901,16]}) 28. Bxf6 {[%eval 1614,17]} gxf6 {[%eval 1673,17]}
29. Qf2 {[%eval 1673,18]} Ke8 {[%eval 32754,14]} ({HIARCS 13.2 MP:} 29... Kg7
30. Rxf6 Rf8 31. Rxf8 Qg6 32. Ne7 Qxe4+ 33. Kg1 Qh1+ 34. Kxh1 Bb7+ 35. Rf3 Rf8
36. Nf5+ Kh7 37. Kg1 Bxf3 38. Qxf3 {[%eval 1673,18]}) 30. Rxf6 {
[%eval 32755,13]} Qc6 {[%eval 32758,15]} 31. Bg4 {[%eval 32759,18]} Qxd5 {
[%eval 32759,17]} 32. exd5 {[%eval 32760,9]} Bb7 {[%eval 32760,18]} 33. Qc5 {
[%eval 32761,8]} Ra6 {[%eval 32761,21]} 34. Bxd7+ {[%eval 32762,29]} Kd8 {
[%eval 32762,27]} 35. Rf7 {[%eval 32763,17]} Re8 {[%eval 32763,62]} 36. Bxe8 {
[%eval 32764,62]} Rc6 {[%eval 32764,62]} 37. Qe7+ {[%eval 32765,62]} Kc8 {
[%eval 32765,62]} 38. Qxb7+ {[%eval 32766,62]} Kd8 {[%eval 32766,62]} 39. Qd7#
{[%eval 0,0]} 1-0

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks David for bringing this up....
Reminds me of the good old days of the computer chess era

SOS & Century 4 are in my waiting list for playing a 20 games match against....hope I'll find the time to do so....

Right now I'm playing Virtual chess II 2.04....an amazing program back from the year 1997....
Dr.D

[Dayffd]

Thanks David for bringing this up....
Reminds me of the good old days of the computer chess era

SOS & Century 4 are in my waiting list for playing a 20 games match against....hope I'll find the time to do so....

Right now I'm playing Virtual chess II 2.04....an amazing program back from the year 1997....
Dr.D

You are quite welcome. Virtual chess II 2.04? Is that winboard/uci capable? I did a quick google and one comment I saw was that it was not winboard capable. If it is, is there anywhere that you know of that it can be legally obtained? Of course, 14 years have passed...

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks David for bringing this up....
Reminds me of the good old days of the computer chess era

SOS & Century 4 are in my waiting list for playing a 20 games match against....hope I'll find the time to do so....

Right now I'm playing Virtual chess II 2.04....an amazing program back from the year 1997....
Dr.D

You are quite welcome. Virtual chess II 2.04? Is that winboard/uci capable? I did a quick google and one comment I saw was that it was not winboard capable. If it is, is there anywhere that you know of that it can be legally obtained? Of course, 14 years have passed...

Nope....it has it's own gorgeous GUI and even though it's 14 years old now,it still looks great and has tons of options that you can play with....

As for how to purchase it nowadays,I have no idea,but I will dig in here and there and come back to you if I find something....
Dr.D

[Dayffd]

Ok, and thank you. I did look around some, but saw nowhere I could buy it legally except maybe at amazon.com.uk, but that may have been pretty old.