Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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Guenther wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:13 pm
Jesse Gersenson wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 11:06 am
George Tsavdaris wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:32 pm For an interested Chess player, that has already asked in vain around 15 times in the CCCC chat, where is the PGN of all the stage 1 games?
https://newman.chess.com/archive/ccc1/stage1/games.pgn
Thanks for diggin' out that link. If someone is interested I will clean it up (e.g. 17 pgn headers are not necessary), add round tag numbers
and remove the pv comment for readability.
All cleaned up and ready, but there is at least one game missing:

Rd 46. Laser-LC0 is not there!

Also Rd. 28 Crafty - Laser has only two unterminated games, while I thought the rules
require a replay until there is a result.
There was already a predecence for this, as Ivanhoe - LC0 was started three times
until there was a result.

So we have 569 games (including 19 unterminated games) = 550 (should be 552 terminated ones, 46*12)
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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jp wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:01 pm
George Tsavdaris wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:31 pm
Milos wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:10 pm
jkiliani wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:33 pm Lc0 now has a training run using tablebase rescoring for training, rather soon we should be able to see improvements in endgame play from this.
And you still keep "0" in the name, what a joke...
Yes. They do that, to annoy you. And it's good. :D
But that's a side experiment, right?? The main nets better continue to be "0".
I see it's test30 that has TB cheating. If that goes over to the main net, it'll be a ridiculous decision totally against the written first goal of the Lc0 project.
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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jp wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:08 pm
jp wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:01 pm
George Tsavdaris wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:31 pm
Milos wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:10 pm
jkiliani wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:33 pm Lc0 now has a training run using tablebase rescoring for training, rather soon we should be able to see improvements in endgame play from this.
And you still keep "0" in the name, what a joke...
Yes. They do that, to annoy you. And it's good. :D
But that's a side experiment, right?? The main nets better continue to be "0".
I see it's test30 that has TB cheating. If that goes over to the main net, it'll be a ridiculous decision totally against the written first goal of the Lc0 project.
I first goal of Lco to follow A0 was almost complete since 10xxxx series.( Simulation tests showed that Leela was very close to A0, within 50 elo level, A0 and SF 8 were history of 1 year ago anyway)

Second goal is to fight for No 1 and now she is among big 3 level in CCCC.

Series of 20xxx , and 30xxxx networks are aiming to be No 1. (Leela should be no 1 in 2019)
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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Nay Lin Tun wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:22 pm
jp wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:08 pm
jp wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:01 pm
George Tsavdaris wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:31 pm
Milos wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:10 pm
jkiliani wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:33 pm Lc0 now has a training run using tablebase rescoring for training, rather soon we should be able to see improvements in endgame play from this.
And you still keep "0" in the name, what a joke...
Yes. They do that, to annoy you. And it's good. :D
But that's a side experiment, right?? The main nets better continue to be "0".
I see it's test30 that has TB cheating. If that goes over to the main net, it'll be a ridiculous decision totally against the written first goal of the Lc0 project.
I first goal of Lco to follow A0 was almost complete since 10xxxx series.( Simulation tests showed that Leela was very close to A0, within 50 elo level, A0 and SF 8 were history of 1 year ago anyway)

Second goal is to fight for No 1 and now she is among big 3 level in CCCC.

Series of 20xxx , and 30xxxx networks are aiming to be No 1. (Leela should be no 1 in 2019)
I disagree.

A0 was known to scale well and to be weak at blitz.
I read that it is the opposite with LC0 so LC0 has clearly something different from A0.

Edit:
I also disagree that Leela should be number 1 in 2019.
Other programs also improve and in any case I cannot define Leela to be number 1 based on unequal hardware competition.

Edit 2:I also disagree that now leela is among the big 3 level in CCCC.

I see
1)Stockfish 11/15
2)Houdini 10/15
3)Komodo 9/15
4)Lc0 9.5/16

I guess stockfish houdini and komodo are the big 3 and so far lc0 is lucky.
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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How can I download these CCC games in .pgn?
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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Disallowing update between stages will just show a similar result from stage 1.
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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Jhoravi wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:19 pm Disallowing update between stages will just show a similar result from stage 1.
Not exactly similar. She will definately get better due to
1. Ponder off (Pondering On hit her Time Management algorithm and her TM was terrible with in stage 1. I guess she is one that suffer most with Ponder ON)
2. She is generally drawish. ( her scores will relatively improve more cos other engines will also draw more in stage 2).
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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So far, she is the one that can positionally outplay Stockfish and almost got the chance to win vs SF.
[pgn][Event "CCCC 1: Rapid Rumble (15|5) Stage 2"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2018.09.18"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lc0 17.11089"]
[Black "Stockfish 220818"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "3283"]
[ECO "B22"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Time "22:30:35"]
[Variation "Alapin, 2...e5"]
[WhiteElo "3300"]
[TimeControl "900+5"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "362"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 e5 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nf3 d5 5. exd5 e4 6. Ne5 Bd6 7. d4 O-O 8.
Bf4 cxd4 9. cxd4 Nxd5 10. Bxd5 Bb4+ 11. Nc3 Qxd5 12. O-O Bxc3 13. bxc3 f6
14. Ng4 Bxg4 15. Qxg4 Nc6 16. a4 Qc4 17. Qd7 Rf7 18. Qf5 Re7 19. Rfc1 b6
20. Rab1 Rd8 21. Qb5 Na5 22. h4 Ree8 23. Rb4 Qf7 24. Qf5 Rd5 25. Qh3 Rdd8
26. h5 Rd5 27. Rb5 Nc4 28. Rcb1 Rd7 29. R5b4 f5 30. Rb5 Rf8 31. h6 g6 32.
Rd1 Qe7 33. Rb4 Qe6 34. Rb5 Rc8 35. d5 Qf7 36. Rd4 Rc5 37. d6 Qe6 38. Rb1
Na5 39. Qe3 Nc6 40. Rdd1 Rc4 41. Rb5 Rxa4 42. Rbd5 Rc4 43. Qd2 Rc5 44. Rxc5
bxc5 45. f3 c4 46. fxe4 fxe4 47. Re1 Qf5 48. Bh2 a5 49. Qe2 Qc5+ 50. Kh1
Qd5 51. Qg4 Qf5 52. Qe2 Qd5 53. Qg4 Qf5 54. Qxe4 Qxe4 55. Rxe4 Kf7 56. Rxc4
Nd8 57. Rc8 Nb7 58. Rc6 a4 59. Kg1 Ke6 60. Ra6 Nxd6 61. Kf2 Kd5 62. Ra5+
Kc4 63. Rxa4+ Kb3 64. Rb4+ Kxc3 65. Bxd6 Rxd6 66. Rb7 Kd4 67. Rxh7 Ke5 68.
Rf7 g5 69. h7 Rh6 70. Kf3 Ke6 71. Rf8 g4+ 72. Kxg4 Rxh7 73. Rf2 Rg7+ 74.
Kh5 Rg3 75. Kh6 Rg8 76. Kh5 Rh8+ 77. Kg5 Rg8+ 78. Kh4 Rh8+ 79. Kg4 Rg8+ 80.
Kh4 Rh8+ 81. Kg4 Rg8+ 82. Kh5 Rh8+ 83. Kg6 Rg8+ 84. Kh6 Ke5 85. Kh5 Rh8+
86. Kg4 Rg8+ 87. Kh3 Rh8+ 88. Kg3 Rg8+ 89. Kh2 Rh8+ 90. Kg3 Rg8+ 91. Kh4
Rh8+ 92. Kg5 Rg8+ 93. Kh4 Rh8+ 94. Kg5 Rg8+ 95. Kh5 Rh8+ 96. Kg6 Rg8+ 97.
Kh6 Ke6 98. Kh7 Rg3 99. Rb2 Kf5 100. Kh6 Kg4 101. Rb4+ Kf5 102. Rb2 Kf4
103. Rf2+ Ke3 104. Ra2 Rg4 105. Kh5 Rg3 106. Kh4 Rg8 107. g3 Rh8+ 108. Kg4
Rg8+ 109. Kh3 Kf3 110. Ra3+ Kf2 111. Ra2+ Kf3 112. Ra3+ Kf2 113. Kh4 Rd8
114. g4 Rh8+ 115. Kg5 Rg8+ 116. Kf4 Rf8+ 117. Ke4 Rg8 118. Kf5 Rf8+ 119.
Kg6 Rg8+ 120. Kh5 Rh8+ 121. Kg6 Rg8+ 122. Kh5 Rh8+ 123. Kg5 Rg8+ 124. Kf4
Rf8+ 125. Ke5 Rg8 126. Kf5 Rf8+ 127. Ke6 Rg8 128. Ra4 Kg3 129. Kf5 Kh4 130.
g5+ Kh5 131. Ra1 Rxg5+ 132. Kf4 Rg2 133. Kf5 Rf2+ 134. Ke4 Kh6 135. Ke5 Kh7
136. Ke6 Rf4 137. Rg1 Rf2 138. Ra1 Rf4 139. Ke5 Rf2 140. Rg1 Ra2 141. Kf6
Rb2 142. Rc1 Rf2+ 143. Ke6 Rf4 144. Ke5 Rf2 145. Ke6 Re2+ 146. Kf6 Re3 147.
Rh1+ Kg8 148. Rb1 Rh3 149. Rb2 Rg3 150. Rb1 Rg2 151. Rb3 Rg1 152. Ra3 Rb1
153. Ra2 Rb3 154. Ra6 Rh3 155. Ra1 Rg3 156. Ra2 Rg1 157. Rb2 Ra1 158. Rb3
Rc1 159. Ra3 Rb1 160. Ra6 Rb3 161. Ra1 Rh3 162. Ra2 Rg3 163. Rb2 Rg1 164.
Ra2 Rb1 165. Ra7 Rc1 166. Ra6 Rc3 167. Ra1 Rh3 168. Ra2 Rg3 169. Rb2 Rg1
170. Rb3 Ra1 171. Rb6 Ra3 172. Rc6 Rh3 173. Rc1 Rg3 174. Rc6 Rg1 175. Rc3
Ra1 176. Rc6 Ra3 177. Rb6 Rh3 178. Rb1 Rg3 179. Kf5 Rg2 180. Kf6 Ra2 181.
Rh1 Rb2 1/2-1/2
[/pgn]
(book moves, 2 moves )
At move 43. She played Qd2 and draw. In fact the game was forced win with +3.00 on depth 50+ analysis with SF.
Winning variation was, 43.Qe2! Rxc3 44.Qb5! Qf7 45.Bg5! Qe6 46.Qa4 Qf7 47.Qa1 Rc2 48.Qa6 Nb4 49.Qa4 Nxd5 50.Qxc2 Rxd6 51.Qc8+ Qf8 52.Qb7 Qf7 53.Qa8+ Qf8 54.Qxa7 Qf7 55.Qa8+ Qf8 56.Qa2 Qf7 57.Bf4! Nxf4 58.Qa8+ Qf8 59.Qxf8+ Kxf8 60.Rxd6 and so on

(Also, she missed win against Komodo in stage 1 as well. )
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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

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Re: Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

Post by Uri Blass »

Jhoravi wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:19 pm Disallowing update between stages will just show a similar result from stage 1.
I understood that updates are not allowed and it is the same lc0 as stage 1 and also the same stockfish as stage 1.

Did I understand wrong?

In any case I think regardless of time management that ponder off means effectively shorter time control and shorter time control is going to help lc0.
Inspite of it I guess lc0 is going to get only 4th place.

it now shares place 3-4 with komodo with 10 out of 17.