Yes, the 24 core machine performed really well, although you obviously also need quite a bit of luck to score 9 out of 9 given that some of the opponents are quite close to texel in strength.Joost Buijs wrote:Texel (named after a Dutch island) did very well, clearly the strongest engine in this tourney, combined with 24 cores he out-calculated everyone.
A very well deserved victory, my congrats to Texel!
Texel has several times gotten into trouble as black against nightmare in games where nightmare opens with e4, later plays g4 and castles on the queen side against black's king side castle. I have let my automatic book builder spend a lot of time analyzing such positions, but some of the lines are very deep and complicated.
This time this kind of opening happened again, but texel was able to fend off the king side attack and launch its own attack on the queen side:
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[Event "ICS rated blitz match"]
[Site "winboard.nl"]
[Date "2016.02.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "NightmareX"]
[Black "Texel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2085"]
[BlackElo "2186"]
[TimeControl "300+1"]
[Annotator "16. +0.25 11... -0.05"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 Be7 8.
Qd2 O-O 9. dxc5 Nxc5 10. O-O-O Qc7 11. g4 b6 {-0.05/21 41} 12. Kb1 Bb7
{-0.12/21 13} 13. Nb5 Qd7 {+0.00/21 12} 14. h4 Ne4 {-0.15/19 12} 15. Qg2
Rfc8 {-0.32/19 14} 16. Nbd4 {+0.25/16 13} a5 {-0.54/19 1.4} 17. h5
{+0.24/17 23} a4 {+0.78/20 10} 18. h6 {-0.03/18 8} g6 {+0.67/21 2.1} 19.
Nxc6 {-0.50/18 9} Bxc6 {+1.14/22 14} 20. Ka1 {-0.47/19 9} a3 {+1.94/22 10}
21. b3 {-0.97/20} Bb4 {+1.74/22 5} 22. Bd4 {-0.86/19} Qc7 {+2.15/22 6} 23.
Rh3 {-1.25/20 9} Bb7 {+1.84/22 0.4} 24. Ne1 {-1.24/21 11} b5 {+1.70/22 11}
25. Re3 {-0.91/18 8} Qa5 {+2.08/21 11} 26. Nf3 {-1.40/19 5} Rc7
{+3.10/22 8} 27. Rc1 {-1.60/19 5} Rac8 {+3.58/23 8} 28. Rd3 {-1.76/20 2.8}
Bc3+ {+5.08/22 8} 29. Bxc3 {-1.92/23 5} Rxc3 {+5.65/24 7} 30. Qe2
{-1.92/21 11} Rxd3 {+5.68/26 0.4} 31. Qxd3 {-3.94/23} Rc3 {+5.98/27} 32.
Qxb5 {-4.73/23 2.3} Qxb5 {+6.94/26 6} 33. Bxb5 {-5.29/24 4} Rxf3
{+7.39/27 2.0} 34. Rf1 {-5.44/23 6} Rg3 {+10.18/27 8} 35. g5 {-5.83/23 7}
Nc3 {+99.61/27 12} 36. Bd3 {-6.68/23} Bc6 {+99.79/27 16} 37. Ba6 {-9.10/20}
Rg2 {+99.81/20 0.3} 38. Rc1 {-8.13/18 6} Bb5 {+99.83/18} 39. Bb7
{-9.89/19 13} Bd3 {+99.85/16} 40. Bxd5 {-99.86/18 5} exd5 {+99.87/14} 41.
e6 {-99.88/51 5} fxe6 {+99.89/12} 42. f5 {-99.90/64 4} Bxc2 {+99.91/10} 43.
f6 {-99.92/64 5} Bd3 {+99.93/8} 44. f7+ {-99.94/64} Kxf7 {+99.95/6} 45.
Rxc3 {-99.96/64 5} Rg1+ {+99.97/4} 46. Rc1 {-99.98/64 2.8} Rxc1# {+99.99/2}
{NightmareX checkmated} 0-1
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