Rybka - Shredder, Olympiad final , Nice game

[Titu]

[Event "Olympiad"]
[Site "Pamplona"]
[Date "2009.05.13"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Rybka"]
[Black "Shredder"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "Nightwish35"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Qe2 Ng5 6. Nxg5 Qxg5 7. d4 Qe7 8.
dxe5 Nd4 9. Qd3 Qxe5 10. Nc3 Bc5 11. Qd1 Ne6 12. Re1 Qd4 13. Qf3 O-O 14. Re4
Qd6 15. Rh4 Qe5 16. Bd2 f5 17. Re1 Qf6 18. Qh3 Qg6 19. Nd5 c6 20. Rxe6 Qxe6 21.
Nf4 Qxa2 22. Rxh7 cxb5 23. g3 Rf6 24. Bc3 Kf7 25. Qh4 Qa1+ 26. Kg2 Qa6 27. Bxf6
Qxf6 28. Qh5+ 1-0

Very nice game! Rybka won the Olympiad with perfect score.

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

Congrats to the Rybka team. They are the true champions, no matter what happens in the WCCC.

[Jeroen]

Thanks, Gian-Carlo:-).

Good luck with cluster Deep Sjeng, a truly great job that you managed this! A real pity that ICGA is more or less 'punishing' you for this fine achievement by not allowing more than 8 cores in the WCCC. As you rightly pointed out some 8 cores are far more expensive than a cluster, so this is really hard to understand.

Best wishes, Jeroen

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

I'm sure I was just collateral damage in an attempt to hamper Rybka.

Anyway, move 19 is amazing. It takes Rybka 3 21 minutes on a fast quad to find it. How long did it take your cluster to find it?

I also understand now why you did not want to comment on the opening after our game.

[Werewolf]

Congrats to the Rybka team. They are the true champions, no matter what happens in the WCCC.

Yes. You & Rybka are pushing computer chess forward. We do not want rules that hold it back. I can get 4 quads cheaper than a skulltrail & I hope to be running Cluster Rybka and Cluster Sjeng in due course!

[Sean Evans]

Yes. You & Rybka are pushing computer chess forward. We do not want rules that hold it back. I can get 4 quads cheaper than a skulltrail & I hope to be running Cluster Rybka and Cluster Sjeng in due course!

When you say "Cluster" are you referring to a "multi-core" CPU?

With respect to Sjeng, I thought that program would be considered average compared to the commercial programs?!

[glorfindel]

Yes. You & Rybka are pushing computer chess forward. We do not want rules that hold it back. I can get 4 quads cheaper than a skulltrail & I hope to be running Cluster Rybka and Cluster Sjeng in due course!

When you say "Cluster" are you referring to a "multi-core" CPU?

With respect to Sjeng, I thought that program would be considered average compared to the commercial programs?!

If "average" is anything not as strong as Rybka and Naum, then you could call it average. At the CCRL list, Deep Sjeng is number 6, above Shredder, Hiarcs and Deep Junior.

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

When you say "Cluster" are you referring to a "multi-core" CPU?!

A cluster is several machines connected together via a network. Deep Sjeng can use them together to increase its strength. So if you have 2 quads, Deep Sjeng can use them as if they were an 8 core machine.

[George Tsavdaris]

Congrats to the Rybka team. They are the true champions, no matter what happens in the WCCC.

But why? I understand that this is the unlimited hardware tournament but still....

[Sean Evans]

When you say "Cluster" are you referring to a "multi-core" CPU?!

A cluster is several machines connected together via a network. Deep Sjeng can use them together to increase its strength. So if you have 2 quads, Deep Sjeng can use them as if they were an 8 core machine.

Hi, why not just use racks?

What would be the advantage of clusters over racks?