CCC Candidates 2024 Playouts

[AndrewGrant]

https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship

We are running the Candidates 2024 Playout Event series at CCC, in which we've derived 50 openings from the 40 Candidates games, and 40 Women's Candidate games. The openings are from the first position in which the evaluations exceed +- 0.80. There will uncertainly be many positions that are busted, as human blunders are large at times.

Hopefully this provides in interesting look into how engines might have played the games out; whether that is seeing if they play the same winning lines as the players, or if they are able to convert/defend when the players could not.

Blog post is here ( https://www.chess.com/blog/AndrewGrantE ... 4-playouts ) and provides a reference table, to get back to the original game. I hope our OTB fans will enjoy the event, even if its not a great measure of head-to-head engine strength.

[pohl4711]

We are running the Candidates 2024 Playout Event series at CCC, in which we've derived 50 openings from the 40 Candidates games, and 40 Women's Candidate games. The openings are from the first position in which the evaluations exceed +- 0.80. There will uncertainly be many positions that are busted, as human blunders are large at times.

Great idea. You should contact Levy Rozman (aka Gothamchess), to make some great engine-videos on youtube about this event. Fits perfect to his Candidates 2024-videos. I will try the same with TheBigGreek, out german chess-youtuber #1.

[matejst]

Thanks, Andrew.

[CornfedForever]

Great idea. You should contact Levy Rozman (aka Gothamchess), to make some great engine-videos on youtube about this event. Fits perfect to his Candidates 2024-videos. I will try the same with TheBigGreek, out german chess-youtuber #1.

Honestly, I don't think he would consider it worth his time. I don't think his viewers would particularly care.

[AndrewGrant]

Great idea. You should contact Levy Rozman (aka Gothamchess), to make some great engine-videos on youtube about this event. Fits perfect to his Candidates 2024-videos. I will try the same with TheBigGreek, out german chess-youtuber #1.

Honestly, I don't think he would consider it worth his time. I don't think his viewers would particularly care.

Levy regularly makes videos about the CCC games

[pohl4711]

Levy regularly makes videos about the CCC games

And he does it in a really entertaining and instructive way. My favorite ccc-games Levy-video is his second video with some wins by Torch:


If anybody has not seen this - do it!


This one is also a great video:

[Jouni]

Human chess: In game 14 Caruana (Elo 2803) missed some 5 winning moves. Of course that makes games more interesting . In move 64.

[d]Q7/2R2P2/1p6/1kn2q2/p7/P7/KP5p/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by The Huntsman 1:

1. +- (#27): 64.Qe8+ Ka5 65.Qe1+ Ka6 66.Qe2+ Nd3 67.Qxh2 Qe6+ 68.Kb1 Qe1+ 69.Kc2 Qe4 70.Kd2 Nf4 71.f8Q Qd3+ 72.Ke1 Qe3+ 73.Kf1 Qf3+ 74.Kg1 Qe3+ 75.Qf2 Nh3+ 76.Kf1 Qxf2+ 77.Qxf2 Nxf2 78.Kxf2 b5 79.Ke3 Kb6 80.Rc1 Ka6 81.Kd4 Kb7 82.Kd5 Kb6 83.Rc6+ Kb7 84.Kc5 b4 85.axb4 Ka7 86.Rc7+ Ka8 87.Kb6 Kb8 88.b5 a3 89.bxa3 Ka8 90.Rc8#
2. +- (#29): 64.Qc6+ Ka6 65.Qa8+ Kb5 66.Qe8+ Ka5 67.Qe1+ Ka6 68.Qe2+ Nd3 69.Qxh2 Qe6+ 70.Kb1 Qe1+ 71.Kc2 Qe4 72.Kd2 Nf4 73.f8Q Qd3+ 74.Ke1 Qe3+ 75.Kf1 Qf3+ 76.Kg1 Qe3+ 77.Qf2 Nh3+ 78.Kf1 Qxf2+ 79.Qxf2 Nxf2 80.Kxf2 b5 81.Rc1 Kb7 82.Ke3 Kb8 83.Kd4 Kb7 84.Kd5 Kb6 85.Rc6+ Kb7 86.Kc5 b4 87.axb4 Ka7 88.Rc7+ Ka8 89.Kb6 Kb8 90.b5 a3 91.bxa3 Ka8 92.Rc8#

Draw after 6 hours.

[pohl4711]

If you understand german and are interested, here a nice video by TheBigGreek about the game Vidit - Firouzja. Played by Torch (white) vs. Stockfish (black) after the move Bb7 of Firouzja. Very interesting IMHO. In the next days, some more videos will follow with enginegames out of the candidates-openings.

[glennsamuel32]

Levy regularly makes videos about the CCC games

And he does it in a really entertaining and instructive way. My favorite ccc-games Levy-video is his second video with some wins by Torch:


If anybody has not seen this - do it!


This one is also a great video:

Thanks for the video links...
Very entertaining presentation and analysis...

The Most TERRIFYING Chess Bot on Earth ?
Well, I'm not so sure...

[pgn][Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2024.04.24"]
[Round "?"]
[White "New game"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rn1qk2r/pb2ppb1/2pp1np1/1p5p/3PP2P/2N1BP1N/PPPQ2P1/R3KB1R w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "13"]

{[#]} 1. e5 b4 2. Na4 Nd5 3. e6 f5 4. Bg5 Qa5 5. c4 Nc7 6. Nf4 Qxa4 7. Bd3 *

[/pgn]

The first 7 white moves after the opening moves of Game 1 are all first choices of Stockfish...
Didn't bother to go further...

Maybe Stockfish is the most terrifying Chess AI afterall

[pohl4711]

Thanks for the video links...
Very entertaining presentation and analysis...

This one was released, when Torch was announced, so it is a little bit older, but especially the first 2 games are just mindblowing...