Test tournament run-up to FOSCEC complete

[Gusev]

The results are available at http://www.foscec.org/test/index.htm. The games can be downloaded from http://www.foscec.org/test/games.pgn. All participating free, open-source chess engines scored some victories in this 1'+1" FOSCEC run-up blitz test. Even the last place finisher Toga II 3.0 won one of its games against Gull 3 in a spectacular fashion.
[pgn]
[Event "test08-1"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.05.02"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Gull 3 x64"]
[Black "Toga II 3.0"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "2827"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two Knights"]
[Variation "4.d3"]
[WhiteElo "3080"]
[TimeControl "60+1"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

{Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz 1595 MHz W=13.8 plies; 2, 200kN/s
B=13.5 plies; 1,238kN/s} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 {(O-O)} Bb4+
5. c3 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 h6 8. a4 d6 9. b4 a6 10. Nbd2 Be6 11. Bxe6 fxe6
12. Nb3 Qe8 13. Bd2 Kh8 14. Qe2 g5 15. h3 Qh5 16. b5 Nd8 17. c4 g4 18. hxg4
Nxg4 19. Na5 Bg5 20. Bc3 b6 21. Nb3 a5 22. Ra3 c5 23. Ra2 Ra7 24. Na1 Raf7
25. Nb3 Rxf3 26. Qxf3 Rxf3 27. gxf3 Nh2 0-1[/pgn]

[cdani]

Very interesting standard computer bad play for white. Sure every engine must try to avoid this.

[jdart]

Very interesting. I think a lot of engines would fall for this attack.

22. Ra3 just looks dumb: however it is probably too late to save White at that point. 17. c4 looks like the fatal error. Houdini suggests 17. Be3 g4 hxg4 Nxg4 19. Nbd2, and White is still under pressure but defending. I also think maybe d4 at some point might be in order, with the standard idea that a break in the center is the way to counter a wing attack.

--Jon