iOS Tournament

[JuLieN]

This is brilliant, thanks for running it

Thanks Ray, we're doing our best. I also think it's very interesting. When the grid is filled we'll add some more Apps. We found some powered with Amy Chess, Gromit and Faile! Tim also told me that he'll soon have an iOS6-compatible version of his SmallChess.

[JuLieN]

Fritz was trounced again. This time by HIARCS (4-0). The good thing with Fritz is that it resigns early. But I wonder if this application is really powered with the Fritz engines. Or has Fritz sunk so much behind the best engines recently? HIARCS played strange move too, like castling in the open or removing some pawns shielding its king. But Fritz prove unable to exploit such moves. Anyway, here are the four games. In the second game HIARCS comes with a nice attack on Fritz's king and end up with two central passed pawns :

[pgn]
[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.18"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Fritz iOS"]
[Black "HIARCS iOS"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 d6 6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bb3 Nc6 8. Nf3
dxe5 9. Nxe5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 Qxd1+ 11. Bxd1 e6 12. Nd2 Bd7 13. Bf3 O-O-O 14. Ne4
Nc4 15. Bg5 Bb4+ 16. Kf1 Nxe5 17. Bxd8 Rxd8 18. Rc1+ Kb8 19. Be2 Bc6 20. Ng3
Rd2 21. a3 Be7 22. b4 Ra2 23. Kg1 Rxa3 24. b5 Bd5 25. Bf1 Nd3 26. Rc2 Ra1 27.
Rd2 Ne1 28. h3 Bxg2 29. Rd7 Bf6 30. Rxf7 Bd5 31. Rd7 Be5 32. Rxd5 exd5 33. h4
d4 34. f4 Bxf4 35. Nh5 Be5 36. Kf2 d3 37. Ke3 g6 38. Rh3 gxh5 39. Ke4 d2 40.
Be2 Bf6 41. Bxh5 d1=Q 42. Bxd1 Rxd1 43. Kf5 Bd8 44. Rh1 Rd5+ 45. Ke6 Rxb5 46.
Rxe1 a5 47. Rc1 Bc7 48. Rg1 Bf4 49. Rg4 Bd2 50. Rg8+ Ka7 51. Rg4 Bc3 52. Rc4
Bb2 53. Re4 Ka6 54. Kf7 Rh5 55. Kg8 b5 56. Re2 Bd4 57. Re4 Be5 58. Re3 a4 59.
Kf7 b4 60. Re4 Kb5 61. Re2 b3 62. Rd2 b2 63. Rd5+ Kc6 64. Rd1 a3
0-1

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.18"]
[Round "2"]
[White "HIARCS iOS"]
[Black "Fritz iOS"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. h3 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Nd7 7. c3 Ngf6 8.
Nxf6+ Nxf6 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O Qd6 11. Bg5 Be6 12. Qd2 Nh5 13. Rfe1 Rad8 14. Qe3
Rfe8 15. Bc2 Bd5 16. Bb3 Nf6 17. Bf4 Qd7 18. Ne5 Qc8 19. c4 Be6 20. Rad1 a6 21.
Qf3 Nh5 22. Bh2 f6 23. Nd3 Bh6 24. Rxe6 Qxe6 25. c5 Rd5 26. Nb4 Red8 27. Bc7
R8d7 28. Nxd5 cxd5 29. Bd6 Qf7 30. Bxd5 e6 31. Bb3 Ng7 32. d5 e5 33. Bc7 Kh8
34. d6 Ne6 35. Bxe6 Qxe6 36. Qxb7 Kg7 37. c6 f5 38. Qxa6 Bg5 39. Qb5 Qxa2 40.
cxd7 Qa8 41. Qxe5+ Kh6 42. Qe7
1-0

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.18"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Fritz iOS"]
[Black "HIARCS iOS"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 Nbd7 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. d4 e6 7. Bd3 Bd6 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. O-O a6 10. Rc1 e5 11. e4 dxe4 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Bxe4 exd4 14. Bg5
Nf6 15. Rc4 Be7 16. Rxd4 Qb6 17. Qe1 h6 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Rb4 Qc5 20. Rb3 Be6
21. Rxb7 Bxa2 22. Qe2 Be6 23. Re1 Rfd8 24. b4 Qc3 25. h4 Bc4 26. Qe3 Qxe3 27.
Rxe3 Rab8 28. Ra3 Rxb7 29. Bxb7 Rb8 30. Bxa6 Ra8 31. Bxc4 Rxa3 32. Bf1 Ra4 33.
b5 Bxh4 34. Ne5 Bd8 35. g3 Bb6 36. Kg2 Ra2 37. Nd3 h5 38. Kg1 Rd2 39. Kg2 g5
40. Kg1 Kg7 41. Kg2 Kf6 42. g4 hxg4 43. Kg3 Kf5 44. Kg2 Ke4 45. Kg3 f5 46. Kg2
f4 47. Kh1 Rxd3 48. Bxd3+ Kxd3 49. Kg1 Ke2 50. Kg2 Bxf2
0-1

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "HIARCS iOS"]
[Black "Fritz iOS"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 Nxd6 7. Nc3 Nc6 8.
Qf4 g6 9. Ne5 Bg7 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Be3 O-O 12. O-O-O Bxc3 13. bxc3 Be6 14. a4
Ba2 15. Bd3 Re8 16. Bd4 Rb8 17. Rhe1 c5 18. Rxe8+ Nxe8 19. Bxc5 a5 20. Bb5 Qc8
21. Bxe8 Qxe8 22. Qxc7 Ra8 23. f4 Be6 24. Qe5 Bg4 25. Qxe8+ Rxe8 26. Rd6 Re1+
27. Kb2 Re2 28. h3 Be6 29. Rd8+ Kg7 30. Bd4+ f6 31. g4 h5 32. g5 Kf7 33. gxf6
Bxh3 34. Ra8 Re8 35. Ra7+ Ke6 36. Rxa5 Bf5 37. c4 h4 38. Ra6+ Kf7 39. Ra7+ Ke6
40. Rg7 h3 41. a5 Be4 42. Rh7 Rd8 43. Kc3 Bg2 44. Bc5 Bc6 45. Rxh3 Kxf6 46. a6
Re8 47. a7 Kf5 48. Bd6 Re1 49. Rg3 Ra1 50. Rg5+ Kf6 51. Bc5 Ra2 52. Kb3 Ra6 53.
Re5 Kf7 54. f5 gxf5 55. Rxf5+ Ke6 56. Rh5 Kd7 57. Rh7+ Kd8 58. Be3 Be4 59. Rg7
Bc6 60. Kb4 Kc8 61. Bd4 Bb7 62. Kb5 Ra2 63. Bb6 Be4 64. c5 Rb2+ 65. Ka6 Ra2+
66. Ba5 Bb7+ 67. Rxb7 Rxa5+ 68. Kxa5 Kxb7 69. a8=Q+ Kxa8 70. Kb6 Kb8 71. c6 Ka8
72. Kc7 Ka7 73. Kd6 Kb8 74. Kd7 Ka7 75. c7
1-0
[/pgn]

And here is the grid:

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┃                   ┃ SF ┃ Hi ┃ Sh ┃ CT ┃ CG ┃ Fr ┃ CL ┃ tC ┃ CF ┃ CP ┃ iG ┃ OC ┃ BE ┃ CO ┃ iE ┃ CC ┃ FC ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ Stockfish         ┃....┃½½11┃½½½1┃11½½┃½111┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 16
┃ HIARCS            ┃½½00┃....┃0100┃111½┃1111┃1111┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 17.5
┃ Shredder          ┃½½½0┃1011┃....┃1½11┃1101┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 11
┃ Chess Tiger       ┃00½½┃000½┃0½00┃....┃½1½1┃    ┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  9
┃ Chess Genius      ┃½000┃0000┃0010┃½0½0┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  2.5
┃ Fritz             ┃0000┃0000┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess Legends     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ tChess Pro        ┃    ┃0000┃    ┃0000┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  0
┃ Chess Fortress    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess Partner     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iGrandMaster      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Ohm Chess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Battle of the El. ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess O           ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iChess            ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃
┃ CoreChess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃
┃ FatBird Chess++   ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃
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The next match will oppose Fritz to Shredder.

[ernest]

But I wonder if this application is really powered with the Fritz engines..

According to many sites, this is a good question!

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/f ... -the-fritz

[JuLieN]

But I wonder if this application is really powered with the Fritz engines..

According to many sites, this is a good question!

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/f ... -the-fritz

Thanks Ernest, interesting reading! Although I disagree with some posters who say its strength is equivalent to Shredder's: this is just not true, both engines don't play in the same league at all! (More later when this match is complete.)

Chris just sent me the results of tChess Pro vs. Shredder: yet another 4-0, this time for Shredder. Here's what Chris says : "I have finished tchess v Shredder (0:4) - efficiently and clinically demolished, the fourth game was probably the nicest." Here are those games:

[pgn]
[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.17"]
[Round "1"]
[White "tChess Pro"]
[Black "Shredder iOS"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E12"]
[Opening "Queen's Indian"]

{ tChess game: Tchessvshredderg1 } 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 g5 7. Bg3 Ne4 8. Qc2 Bb7 9. e3 d6 10. Qa4+ Nc6 11. Rc1 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3 Qd7 13. Nd2 Nxd2 14. Kxd2 Na5 15. Qb5 c6 16. Qa4 c5 17. Qxd7+ Kxd7 18. Ke1 Ke7 19. h4 Ba6 20. dxc5 dxc5 21. Rd1 Bxc4 22. Bd6+ Kf6 23. f4 gxf4 24. exf4 Rhd8 25. Rd2 Bxf1 26. Rxf1 Nc4 27. Be5+ Ke7 28. Rxd8 Rxd8 29. Bg7 Ne3 30. Bxh6 Nxf1 31. Kxf1 Rh8 32. Bg5+ f6 33. g3 fxg5 34. fxg5 e5 35. Ke2 Ke6 36. Kf3 Kf5 37. Kf2 Rd8 38. a4 Rd3 39. c4 Rd4 40. Ke2 Rxc4 41. a5 bxa5 42. Kf2 a4 43. Ke2 Rd4 44. g6 Kxg6 45. Kf3 a3 46. Kg2 a2 47. Kf3 Rb4 48. Kf2 c4 49. Kf3 Rb3+ 50. Kg4 Kf7 51. h5 a1=Q 52. h6 Qe1 53. Kf5 Rf3+ 54. Kg5 Qxg3+ 55. Kh5 Rf5# 0-1

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.18"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Shredder iOS"]
[Black "tChess Pro"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English"]

{ tChess game: tchessvshredderg2 } 1. c4 e6 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. Nf3 Be7 5. d4 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Ne5 Nc6 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. Nxc6 Qe8 10. Nxe7+ Qxe7 11. Qa4 e5 12. dxe5 Qxe5 13. Qxc4 Be6 14. Qc2 Nd5 15. a3 Bf5 16. Qc5 Bh3 17. Re1 Rfe8 18. Nc3 Nxc3 19. Qxe5 Rxe5 20. bxc3 Rae8 21. Be3 c5 22. Rab1 a5 23. Rb7 Rd8 24. Ra7 Red5 25. f3 c4 26. Bb6 Rb8 27. Bxa5 Rd2 28. g4 h5 29. gxh5 Rb5 30. h6 Rg5+ 31. Kf2 gxh6 32. Bb6 Rdd5 33. Ke3 Rg2 34. Bd4 Rxh2 35. Rb1 Rd8 36. Rg1+ Rg2 37. Rh1 Bf5 38. Rxh6 Kf8 39. Kf4 Be6 40. e4 Rb8 41. a4 Rg8 42. a5 Ke8 43. a6 Rc8 44. Rb7 Ra8 45. a7 Kd8 46. Be5 Rf8 47. Rh2 Ke8 48. Bf6 Bc8 49. Re7+ Kd8 50. Rd2+ Bd7 51. Rdxd7+ Kc8 52. Rb7 Kd8 53. Rb8+ Rxb8 54. axb8=Q# 1-0

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.18"]
[Round "3"]
[White "tChess Pro"]
[Black "Shredder iOS"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D20"]
[Opening "Queen's Gambit Accepted (QGA)"]

{ tChess game: Tchessvshredderg3 } 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 Nc6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. e5 Nd5 6. Bxc4 Bg4 7. Bb5 e6 8. Bxc6+ bxc6 9. O-O Be7 10. Re1 O-O 11. Nbd2 c5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. h3 Bh5 14. Ne4 Be7 15. Bg5 Bxg5 16. Nexg5 h6 17. Ne4 Rb8 18. b3 Nb4 19. g4 Bg6 20. Qe2 Qd5 21. Nc3 Qa5 22. Ne4 Rfd8 23. Nh4 Bxe4 24. Qxe4 Rd2 25. Re2 Nd5 26. Rxd2 Qxd2 27. Nf3 Qb2 28. Qb1 Qc3 29. Qd1 Nf4 30. Kh2 Nd3 31. Rb1 Nxf2 32. Qe2 Nd3 33. Rf1 a5 34. Kg3 a4 35. Rd1 Nc5 36. bxa4 Rb2 37. Qe1 g5 38. Rd4 Qa3 39. Rd8+ Kg7 40. a5 Nd3 41. Rxd3 Qxd3 42. a3 Qxa3 43. a6 Qxa6 44. h4 gxh4+ 45. Kxh4 Qd3 46. Kg3 Rb3 47. Qf2 Qe4 48. Qf1 Qxe5+ 49. Kg2 Qe4 50. Kg3 e5 51. Qd1 Qf4+ 52. Kg2 Rb2+ 53. Kf1 Qxg4 54. Qe2 Rxe2 55. Kxe2 e4 56. Kd2 exf3 57. Ke3 Qg2 58. Kd3 f2 59. Kd4 f1=Q 60. Ke3 Qg5+ 61. Kd4 Qd2+ 62. Ke4 Qff4# 0-1

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.19"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Shredder iOS"]
[Black "tChess Pro"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A53"]
[Opening "Old Indian"]

{ tChess game: tchessvshredderg4 } 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nf3 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. e4 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Nd2 Na6 9. h4 Nc5 10. h5 Nxh5 11. Bxh5 Nd3+ 12. Kf1 gxh5 13. Qxh5 h6 14. Nf3 Nxc1 15. Rxc1 f5 16. Nd2 fxe4 17. Ndxe4 a4 18. a3 Rf4 19. f3 Bd7 20. Ke2 Be8 21. Qh3 Ra5 22. Kd1 Qd7 23. Qg3 Kh8 24. Qe1 Ra6 25. Kc2 Rb6 26. Qe3 Kg8 27. Kb1 Rf7 28. Rxh6 Bxh6 29. Qxh6 Qe7 30. Rh1 Rg7 31. Qh8+ Kf7 32. Rh6 Bd7 33. g4 Ra6 34. g5 Bf5 35. Rf6+ Qxf6 36. gxf6 Rg8 37. Qh5+ Bg6 38. Qh3 Bxe4+ 39. Nxe4 Rg1+ 40. Ka2 Kg6 41. Qc8 Rg2 42. Qe8+ Kf5 43. f7 Kf4 44. f8=Q+ Ke3 45. Qh6+ Kd3 46. Qc1 Rb6 47. Qc3+ Ke2 48. Qd2+ Kxf3 49. Qd3+ Kf4 50. Qf7+ Kg4 51. Qh3+ Kxh3 52. Qh5# 1-0

[/pgn]

And the updated (but not sorted) grid:

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┃                   ┃ SF ┃ Hi ┃ Sh ┃ CT ┃ CG ┃ Fr ┃ CL ┃ tC ┃ CF ┃ CP ┃ iG ┃ OC ┃ BE ┃ CO ┃ iE ┃ CC ┃ FC ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ Stockfish         ┃....┃½½11┃½½½1┃11½½┃½111┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 16
┃ HIARCS            ┃½½00┃....┃0100┃111½┃1111┃1111┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 17.5
┃ Shredder          ┃½½½0┃1011┃....┃1½11┃1101┃    ┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 15
┃ Chess Tiger       ┃00½½┃000½┃0½00┃....┃½1½1┃    ┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  9
┃ Chess Genius      ┃½000┃0000┃0010┃½0½0┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  2.5
┃ Fritz             ┃0000┃0000┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  0
┃ Chess Legends     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ tChess Pro        ┃    ┃0000┃0000┃0000┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  0
┃ Chess Fortress    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess Partner     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iGrandMaster      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Ohm Chess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Battle of the El. ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess O           ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iChess            ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃
┃ CoreChess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃
┃ FatBird Chess++   ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃
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The next match Chris will run is tChess Pro against Fritz... That way those engines (or one of them) will score its first points.

We also decided, for the sake of suspense, to schedule Chess Legend's games : instead of playing all of its matches in a row we'll rather let other engines play and only publish Chess Legends' games when those engines are paired against it. The reason for that is that Chess Legends is powered with Komodo 4, so it's the only engine we see being able to shatter the current leaders. As Ian Osgourd wanted some suspense we give you some! (So if you disagree with this, boo Ian, not us : "boooooooooo!" ) Also, as soon as Small Chess gets its iOS 6 update we will enter it to the tournament.

[JuLieN]

Shredder crushed Fritz 4-0, as was expected. The fourth game is especially interesting, with a very wild opening giving a very vivid middle-game. Here are the four games:

[pgn]
[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.19"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Fritz iOS"]
[Black "Shredder iOS"]
[ECO "E00"]
[Opening "Various Indian Defences"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. g3 Bb4 4. Bd2 Be7 5. Nc3 d5 6. Bg2 O-O 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Nf3
c6 9. Qb3 Ne4 10. Bf4 g5 11. Be3 Nd6 12. O-O Nd7 13. Qc2 Nb6 14. b3 Bf5 15. Qd2
f6 16. a4 Ne4 17. Qc1 Nxc3 18. Qxc3 a5 19. Rfc1 Bb4 20. Qb2 Qe7 21. h3 Bd6 22. g4
Be4 23. Qc3 h5 24. gxh5 Qh7 25. h4 g4 26. Nd2 Bxg2 27. Kxg2 Qxh5 28. Qd3 Rae8
29. Rh1 Re6 30. Rae1 Nd7 31. Qc3 f5 32. Bg5 Bb4 33. Qg3 Nf6 34. Bf4 Ne4 35. Qd3
Bxd2 36. Bxd2 f4 37. Kf1 g3 38. Bb4 axb4 39. f3 Nf2 40. Qc2 Nxh1 41. Kg2 Nf2
42. Rg1 Qxh4
0-1

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.20"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Shredder iOS"]
[Black "Fritz iOS"]
[ECO "D25"]
[Opening "Queen's Gambit Accepted"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 Bg4 5. Bxc4 e6 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. O-O Nb6 8. Be2
Bb4 9. h3 Bh5 10. Qb3 a5 11. a3 Bd6 12. e4 Be7 13. Rd1 O-O 14. Qc2 Nbd7 15. g4
Bg6 16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. dxe5 Nd7 18. Be3 h6 19. Qd3 Nxe5 20. Qb5 Bd6 21. f4 Qh4
22. Bf2 Qf6 23. fxe5 Bxe5 24. Qd3 Qf4 25. Qf3 Qh2 26. Kf1 f5 27. gxf5 Bxc3 28. Qg2
Qxg2 29. Kxg2 Bxb2 30. Rab1 Bxa3 31. fxg6 b6 32. Bg3 Rf6 33. Bh5 Bc5 34. Rd7
Re8 35. Be5 Re7 36. Rbd1 Rf2 37. Kg3 Rf8 38. Bxc7 Rfe8 39. Rxe7 Bxe7 40. Bg4
Bc5 41. Be5 Bf8 42. Rd7 h5 43. Bxh5 Rc8 44. Bg4 Rc6 45. Ra7 a4 46. Rxa4 Bc5
47. Ra8 Bf8 48. Re8 b5 49. Bxe6 Rxe6 50. Rxe6
1-0

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Fritz iOS"]
[Black "Shredder iOS"]
[ECO "A52"]
[Opening "Budapest Gambit"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Nf3 Bc5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Be2 Ncxe5 7. Nc3 O-O
8. Ne4 d6 9. Nxc5 dxc5 10. Qxd8 Rxd8 11. Nxe5 Nxe5 12. f4 Nd3 13. Bxd3 Rxd3
14. Ke2 Bf5 15. b3 Rad8 16. Re1 Be4 17. g4 a5 18. g5 a4 19. Rb1 Rc3 20. Rb2
a3 21. Rd2 Rxd2 22. Bxd2 Bd3 23. Kf3 Rc2 24. Bc1 Rxa2 25. Kg3 h5 26. gxh6 Rb2
27. Rd1 Rxb3 28. Bd2 Bxc4 29. hxg7 Rd3 30. Kf2 a2 31. Ke1 Rb3 32. Bc3 Rxc3 33. Kf2
Rb3 34. Ra1 Rb1 35. Rxa2 Bxa2 36. Kf3 Kxg7 37. e4 b5 38. f5 b4 39. e5 b3
0-1

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "Nantes, France"]
[Date "2013.01.23"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Shredder iOS"]
[Black "Fritz iOS"]
[ECO "D01"]
[Opening "Richter-Veresov Attack"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. Nc3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. Bg5 Nbd7 4. Nf3 h6 5. Bh4 e6 6. e4 g5 7. Bg3 dxe4 8. Nd2
Bb4 9. h4 g4 10. Qe2 Bxc3 11. bxc3 c5 12. Nc4 Rh7 13. dxc5 Nxc5 14. Rd1 Bd7
15. h5 b6 16. Bh4 g3 17. Ne5 Rg7 18. fxg3 Rg5 19. Bxg5 hxg5 20. Qf2 Qe7 21. h6
Nh7 22. Be2 O-O-O 23. Qxf7 Qxf7 24. Nxf7 Rf8 25. Rf1 Kc7 26. Ne5 Rxf1 27. Kxf1
Ba4 28. Bh5 Bxc2 29. Rd2 Bb1 30. Rf2 e3 31. Rf7 Kd6 32. Nc4 Kd5 33. Nxe3 Kc6
34. Bf3 Kb5 35. Rc7 Bg6 36. Be2 Nd3 37. Ng4 a5 38. Ne5 Bf5 39. Bxd3 Bxd3 40. Nxd3
Nf8 41. Ne5 a4 42. Rf7 Nh7 43. Rxh7
1-0
[/pgn]

And the (unsorted) updated grid:

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┃                   ┃ SF ┃ Hi ┃ Sh ┃ CT ┃ CG ┃ Fr ┃ CL ┃ tC ┃ CF ┃ CP ┃ iG ┃ OC ┃ BE ┃ CO ┃ iE ┃ CC ┃ FC ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ Stockfish         ┃....┃½½11┃½½½1┃11½½┃½111┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 16
┃ HIARCS            ┃½½00┃....┃0100┃111½┃1111┃1111┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 17.5
┃ Shredder          ┃½½½0┃1011┃....┃1½11┃1101┃1111┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 19
┃ Chess Tiger       ┃00½½┃000½┃0½00┃....┃½1½1┃    ┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  9
┃ Chess Genius      ┃½000┃0000┃0010┃½0½0┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  2.5
┃ Fritz             ┃0000┃0000┃0000┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  0
┃ Chess Legends     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ tChess Pro        ┃    ┃0000┃0000┃0000┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  0
┃ Chess Fortress    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess Partner     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iGrandMaster      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Ohm Chess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Battle of the El. ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess O           ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iChess            ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃
┃ CoreChess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃
┃ FatBird Chess++   ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃
╰━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╯

The next match will oppose Fritz to Chess Tiger.

[JuLieN]

Chris just communicated me the results of his tChess Pro vs. Fritz match. tChess scored its first points in this tournament : +3-0=1 (3.5-0.5) against an increasingly disappointing Fritz App. Here is what Chris has to say about this match:

Actually this was a frustrating match - because games tended to be longer than your Fritz games (strength difference between tchess and fritz as other programs I suspect). This meant I was struggling to complete games before running out of time (Fritz flags when time is up and you can't carry on the game). So in game 2 - tchess was +6 and I adjudicated a win in game 3 it was a tablebase draw position R+B v R, so called this a draw. White always played with ipod and black had ipad.

Game 4 probably the most exciting and wild. In overall terms I'm disappointed with Fritz, I don't know abput you but I found time management wasn't very good (didn't seem to use clock very well), and it is certainly weaker than I expected. Lack of flexibility with the clock and finishing games was a problems and the multi-tasking doesn't seem to work either at least for me. So more than happy for you to finish the Fritz games.

I noticed as well that Fritz has an horrendous time management. Actually, it will only think for a few seconds before it plays, and will only really start using its 30 minutes when it is in danger: sensing a checkmate or something. When it's too late. To pile on that, the app doesn't multitask, and still has non-retina graphics. It clearly doesn't pay any respect to the Fritz trademark...

Anyway, here are the games:

[pgn]
[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "tChess Pro"]
[Black "Fritz iOS"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A16"]
[Opening "English: Anglo-Indian"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 e5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bb4 7. Nxc6 Bxc3+
8. bxc3 bxc6 9. Be2 Qe7 10. f3 c5 11. Bh6 Rb8 12. O-O Rb2 13. Re1 Rb6 14. e5 Nh5
15. f4 Qe6 16. Qd5 Qxd5 17. cxd5 Rg8 18. Rab1 f5 19. exf6 Nxf6 20. Bc4+ Kd8
21. Rxb6 cxb6 22. d6 Re8 23. Rf1 Re4 24. f5 g5 25. Bxg5 Rxc4 26. Bxf6+ Ke8
27. Re1+ Kf7 28. Bg5 h6 29. Re7+ Kg8 30. Bxh6 Rh4 31. Re8+ Kh7 32. Bd2 Ra4
33. Rxc8 Kg7 34. Bg5 Rxa2 35. Rd8 Ra1+ 36. Kf2 Ra2+ 37. Kg3 Ra3 38. Rxd7+ Kf8
39. Bh6+ Kg8 40. f6
1-0

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Fritz iOS"]
[Black "tChess Pro"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.Nf3 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.c4 e5 4.b3 d6 5.Bd3 f5 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Bb2 fxe4 8.Nxe4 O-O
9.O-O Nh5 10.Nc3 c6 11.Be4 Be6 12.Ba3 Re8 13.Bc2 d5 14.cxd5 cxd5 15.d4 e4 16.Ne5
Qg5 17.Bc1 Nf4 18.Bxf4 Qxf4 19.g3 Qf8 20.Ne2 Qd6 21.f4 Rc8 22.Qd2 Qa3 23.Rfc1
Nc6 24.Kh1 Rab8 25.Bd1 Bf6 26.Rc3 Rc7 27.Rac1 Rbc8 28.R3c2 Bd8 29.Kg1 Be7
30.Nxc6 Rxc6 31.Rxc6 bxc6 32.Nc3 Bf6 33.Rc2 Qa6 34.Kg2 Qb6 35.Ne2 h6 36.h3 h5
37.Qe3 Qa6 38.Kh2 h4 39.g4 Bg7 40.Qg1 Bd7 41.Qe1 Bf6 42.g5 Bg7 43.Kg2 Bf5
44.Kh2 e3 45.Rc3 Qxa2 46.Rxe3 Bxd4 47.Re7 Bc5 48.Re5 Bd7 49.Kg2 Rf8 50.Qc3 Bd6
51.Re3 Rxf4 52.Bc2 Bb4 53.Qe5 Rf8 54.Bxg6 Bc5 55.Qc3 Bxe3 56.Qxe3 Qa1 57.Nf4 Qg7
58.b4 Qb2+ 59.Qe2 Qxe2+ 60.Nxe2 Rb8 61.Nd4 Rxb4 62.Bf5 Bxf5 63.Nxf5
0-1

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.22"]
[Round "3"]
[White "tChess Pro"]
[Black "Fritz iOS"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A11"]
[Opening "English: Caro-Kann Defence"]

1. c4 c6 2. e4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bb5+ Bd7
8. Bxd7+ Qxd7 9. Nxd5 Qxd5 10. Qf3 Qd7 11. Ne2 Bg7 12. O-O Nc6 13. Be3 O-O
14. Rac1 a6 15. Rc5 Nb4 16. Bd2 b6 17. Rc4 Nd5 18. Rfc1 e6 19. Qd3 b5 20. Rc5
Rac8 21. Qa3 Qb7 22. Qb3 Nb6 23. Bf4 Na4 24. R5c2 Rxc2 25. Qxc2 Ra8 26. h3 Nb6
27. Qc6 Qa7 28. Bd6 Nd5 29. Bc5 Qb8 30. Nc3 Nxc3 31. Rxc3 Qe8 32. Qxe8+ Rxe8
33. Bb6 h6 34. Rc6 h5 35. Bc5 Ra8 36. Rb6 g5 37. Kf1 Kh7 38. b3 Bh6 39. d5 exd5
40. Rf6 Rg8 41. Rxf7+ Rg7 42. Rf6 Rc7 43. b4 a5 44. Rd6 axb4 45. Rxd5 Kg6
46. Be3 h4 47. Rxb5 Rc2 48. g3 hxg3 49. fxg3 Rxa2 50. Rb6+ Kh7 51. Rb7+ Kg8
52. Rxb4 Rh2 53. h4 gxh4 54. Bxh6 hxg3 55. Rg4+ Kf7 56. Be3 Ke6 57. Rxg3 Rc2
58. Rg6+ Kf5 59. Rg5+ Ke4 60. Bf2 Rb2 61. Rg4+ Kf5 62. Rh4 Kg5 63. Rh8 Kf4
64. Rc8 Rb7 65. Bd4 Ke4 66. Bc3 Ra7 67. Re8+ Kd3 68. Bf6 Ra2 69. Be5 Rc2
70. Bf4 Kd4 71. Ke1 Kd5 72. Re5+ Kd4 73. Rb5 Rg2 74. Bd6 Rc2 75. Kd1 Rf2
76. Rg5 Kd3 77. Rd5+ Kc4 78. Rh5 Kd3 79. Rh3+ Ke4 80. Bc5 Rb2 81. Rh4+ Kd5
82. Rh5+ Ke4 83. Bb4 Rg2 84. Bc3 Ra2 85. Ke1 Rg2 86. Bf6 Kd3 87. Re5 Kc4 88. Rf5
1/2-1/2

[Event "iOS tournament"]
[Site "England"]
[Date "2013.01.23"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Fritz iOS"]
[Black "tChess Pro"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e4 b5 6.e5 Nd5 7.a4 e6 8.axb5 Nxc3
9.bxc3 cxb5 10.Ng5 Bb7 11.Qh5 g6 12.Qh3 a5 13.Bd2 a4 14.Nxh7 Nd7 15.Rb1 a3
16.Bxc4 bxc4 17.Rxb7 a2 18.Ke2 a1Q 19.Rxa1 Rxa1 20.Nf6+ Nxf6 21.Qxh8 Qa8 22.Qxf6
Qxb7 23.Qf3 Qxf3+ 24.Kxf3 Ra2 25.Be1 Ba3 26.h4 Bb2 27.Ke4 Ba1 28.d5 Re2+ 29.Kd4
exd5 30.Kxd5 Rxe1 31.Kxc4 Re2 32.g4 Re4+ 33.Kd5 Rxg4 34.f3 Rxh4 35.c4 Kd7 36.Kc5
Bxe5 37.Kb5 Bd6 38.Ka4 Rxc4+ 39.Kb3 Rf4 40.Kc3 Rxf3+ 41.Kd4 Rf4+ 42.Kd5 Bb8
43.Kc5 Ba7+ 44.Kb5 Kc7
0-1
[/pgn]

And the unsorted tournament grid:

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┃                   ┃ SF ┃ Hi ┃ Sh ┃ CT ┃ CG ┃ Fr ┃ CL ┃ tC ┃ CF ┃ CP ┃ iG ┃ OC ┃ BE ┃ CO ┃ iE ┃ CC ┃ FC ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ Stockfish         ┃....┃½½11┃½½½1┃11½½┃½111┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 16
┃ HIARCS            ┃½½00┃....┃0100┃111½┃1111┃1111┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 17.5
┃ Shredder          ┃½½½0┃1011┃....┃1½11┃1101┃1111┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃ 19
┃ Chess Tiger       ┃00½½┃000½┃0½00┃....┃½1½1┃    ┃    ┃1111┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  9
┃ Chess Genius      ┃½000┃0000┃0010┃½0½0┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  2.5
┃ Fritz             ┃0000┃0000┃0000┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃00½0┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  0.5
┃ Chess Legends     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ tChess Pro        ┃    ┃0000┃0000┃0000┃    ┃11½1┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃  3.5
┃ Chess Fortress    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess Partner     ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iGrandMaster      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Ohm Chess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Battle of the El. ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ Chess O           ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃    ┃
┃ iChess            ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃    ┃
┃ CoreChess HD      ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃    ┃
┃ FatBird Chess++   ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃    ┃....┃
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The next match Chris will play will be tChess Pro vs Chess Legends. So this will be Komodo 4's grand debuts in this tournament!