Annotators
Misc
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IM Kenneth Frey, IM Vaidas Sakalauskas,
GM Andrei Kharlov, GM Babakuli Annakov,
IM Oleg Krivonosov, Marijus Kulvietis
ODYSSEY 2001
"One of the greatest computer chess event ever is over"
Dear Chess colleagues,
We were proud to work with Odyssey 2001 organizators. This event had given very clear picture
about computer chess development for 2001/2002 time period.
Many games, many fights, long time control-all tournament system has exluded accident results and
had given ,in our opinion , really objective final tournament's crosstable .
Last rounds were played very fast and we were late with round reports. Also we wanted to escape just cheap
writting. It is not so easy to analyze program's game. While analyzing man's game we remember his personal features and have them in mind.
We do know machine's tendency to play more silent or more sharp style. But not more.
Thus we had learned much to ourselves about the chessprograms. Today we really know much more about
the programs:
We loved HIARCS to work with. We still love it:) But analyzing it's fiasco in ODYSSEY we found one
reason important to us-this program gives good ideas-but calculate too slow. All of us had noticed in a live game HIARCS
is calculating variations slower then FRITZ, JUNIOR, SHREDDER...
SHREDDER/the newest version especially/ had showed real triumph in ODYSSEY.
First place was deserved by it. Calculating fast. But also after it had reputation of a sharp tactical program-SHREDDER
had improved very much during the" ODYSSEY period"and showed nice combination of features:
fast calculating+sharp tactical style killing any enemy in hybrid with solid databases, theory knowledge .
Sure we see that after Odyssey triumph SHREDDER is a program chased by our players-especially by correspondence chess
players-who need always many programs-everybody wants to get this program:) Asking us where and how to buy it...:)
We think SHREDDER authors will announce on ODYSSEY page how to buy the winner:)
And we honestly congratulate SHREDDER authors with a nice victory! Now Your "child" has many potential parents who
are crazy how to adopt it:)
FRITZ and JUNIOR programs were always used by us as solid programs calculating very well the variations.
Players think some ideas and always want to calculate them on fast helper. FRITZ and JUNIOR are still such helpers for us.
Good ,but not perfect perfomance in ODYSSEY shows that those programs are still good-but:
a/ Other programs had improved strongly /SHREDDER, REBEL group programs-Century,Gambit -Tiger,Gandalf/
b/Bad luck in last rounds against not commercial and not famous programs had decided not the best crosstable place for FRITZ and JUNIOR.
From the other hand it showed that any "amateur" and rather not famous program can strike in some important game.
This shows that people working on those "silent" programs maybe have not so good conditions and and world wide advertisement, but their
enthusiasm and great work can be awarded by very sound, sensational results.
YACE BERLIN,
PHARAON 2.5,
MCHESS,
CHESS SYSTEM TAL,
LITTLE-GOLIATH,
GROMIT,
PATZER,
ZARKOV,
VIRTUAL CHESS,
WCHESS,
COMET,
SOCRATES,
CHINITO/EUGEN.
Those programs are still taken not serious in some chess programs tournaments. But their perfomance
in ODYSSEY had showed they can be dangerous.
We had listed those programs in an order by their final results in ODYSSEY 2001.
Even those programs in lower places had made striking surprises killing professional programs and making bad life to them in a final prize delivery.
Regarding other "Big" programs:
REBEL was sound as one of the strongest in a world. then some bad silence came up in comparison with a FRITZ, JUNIOR
career. REBEL CENTURY-1 was still a doubtful program. Match BALTIJOS-LYGA-CENTURY -1 had showed some weak places of a program -especially in a theory and middlegame.
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But CENTURY-4 improved strongly-convinces us with a strong database and of course we must respect that REBEL group has it's own face from Ato Z. not copying any details from other programs. They have their own face.
2-3-4 places taken by REBEL company programs is a very solid achievement. Our Congratulations to our opponents and friends:)
As we had played twice CENTURY in a live match and play right now vs Gandalf in a corr time control. This match is still running and humans have not easy life as it was predicted by many experts.
Century has taken 2 place-deserved achievement by a solid program.
Another progams having attitude to REBEL company/sorry we dont know the business details:):
GAMBIT-TIGER,
GANDALF,
CHESS-TIGER.
All those programs are very interesting and strong-but places were shared as follows:
3.GAMBIT-TIGER
4.GANDALF
CHESS-TIGER shared 8-11.
We can say that all those programs had ahieved very good places! Maybe final standings were
decided by simple factor:
this was a tournament and those programs were better,which are prepared to bloody fight against each other.
This explains 2 place by GAMBIT, 4 place by GANDALF and Chess-Tiger not very far.
Other famous programs:
CHESSMASTER -very loved program by us. We use it in our trainings with children-coaching work.
It is a unique chess tutor program for learning chess at any levels.
We respect this program for those features and want to see it working further in the same side.
Well if this chess coatch still wants to come to battle and takes not bad place in a tournament between program-killers-bravo!
CRAFTY-our chess helper in ICC virtual chess club-helping to comment live chess events, possible to play and train online.
CRAFTY has shared 5-7 place in ODYSSEY. This is a good result showing it is in a good shape.
NIMZO. We purchase this solid program together with FRITZ and JUNIOR. It is similar with it's fast calculating features,
calculating variations fast, finding sharp variations. We hope this program will not stay in our homes as the program
that is used by us AFTER FRITZ, JUNIOR,REBEL....Solid program-but we expect some more revolutionary changes in it
to find it more unique in some fields.
GENIUS was loved as a tactiacal fighter-having it's own face-nice original features.
We still love it. But ODYSSEY and our experiments at home show that playing strengh of that program is not very high.
We wish new improvements to this silicon friend as well.
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Our supporter's group decided not to analyze right now Odyssey finish game by game:
1/anotations are made of each round and each game!!!!!!
So that people can analyze games right now with master's comments.
2/General analyzis is a very risky work. We had written our general impressions. Deep analysis is possible in a scientific work
that can take some half a year of a huge work. In order to produce something -not insulting some program or their authors.
We have decided to improve our material written for ODYSSEY during the event and we realy think after all the materials will be analyzed carefully and not in a hurry a book is possible with a name"COMPUTER CHESS 2001/2002"/based on a computer's chess programs
tournament ODYSSEY 2001/. We are working on this material.
3/During our round reports we had shared our opinions about the main impressions on programs and their games.
We think the main tendencies are already pointed by us. We dont want to repeat our sentences.
We will reach main ODYSSEY pages to be updated. To have normal order. and comfortable system for chess audience to analyze the event.
Last round reports will escape the analysis game by game-just pointing out some more new and more impressive moments of the round.
Less words and more quality.Our decision.
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Now we have quit. Great thanks for all people organizing ODYSSEY 2001!
Great thanks for programmers-for their hard work.
WE HONESTLY HOPE CHESS WILL WIN FROM ALL THOSE HUGE EFFORTS
CHESSCLUB BALTIJOS LYGA - KAUNAS, LITHUANIA
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ROUND-15
1. SHREDDER6, (1) - (23) MCHESS8, ˝:˝
2. PHARAON 2.5, (12) - (2) GAMBIT-TIGER14.6, ˝:˝
3. CHESS SYSTEM TAL2.03, (14) - (10) REBEL-CENTURY4, 0:1
4. CRAFTY 18.12, (19) - (8) FRITZ7A, 1:0
5. GANDALF432H, (11) - (16) LITTLE-GOLIATH2000V3, ˝:˝
6. YACE BERLIN, (24) - (6) CHESSMASTER8000 1.0.4., ˝:˝
7. REBEL-TIGER14.6, (3) - (18) COMET B37, 1:0
8. HIARCS7.01, (4) - (7) VIRTUAL-CHESS2, 1:0
9. NIMZO8, (20) - (26) GROMIT 3.10.2, 0:1
10. PATZER311B, (17) - (15) WCHESS2000, ˝:˝
11. GENIUS6.5 CZUB-STYLE, (21) - (13) ZARKOV4.5V, 0:1
12. SHREDDER4 CHESSBITS, (5) - (22) SOCRATES X, 1:0
13. JUNIOR7, (9) - (25) CHINITO, 0:1
Download the games of round-15 in PGN format.
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FINAL RANKING after ROUND-15
Tournament: Odyssey-2001
Place Name Sco MBch Buch Ws
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1 SHREDDER6, (1) 12.0 102˝ 119 9
2 REBEL-CENTURY4, (10) 11.0 103 121˝ 9
3 GAMBIT-TIGER14.6, (2) 10.5 101 119 7
4 GANDALF432H, (11) 9.0 102˝ 119 6
5-7 YACE BERLIN, (24) 8.5 105˝ 123 5
FRITZ7A, (8) 8.5 104 122 6
CRAFTY 18.12, (19) 8.5 102˝ 119 7
8-11 PHARAON 2.5, (12) 8.0 103˝ 119 5
SHREDDER4 CHESSBITS, (5) 8.0 92˝ 107˝ 4
REBEL-TIGER14.6, (3) 8.0 88 100 5
HIARCS7.01, (4) 8.0 87 101˝ 6
12-14 MCHESS8, (23) 7.5 104 119˝ 5
CHESS SYSTEM TAL2.03, (14) 7.5 98˝ 116 3
LITTLE-GOLIATH2000V3, (16) 7.5 96 111˝ 5
15-17 NIMZO8, (20) 7.0 105˝ 124 6
CHESSMASTER8000 1.0.4., (6) 7.0 100˝ 116 5
GROMIT 3.10.2, (26) 7.0 90 104 4
18-21 JUNIOR7, (9) 6.5 102˝ 118 4
PATZER311B, (17) 6.5 99˝ 115 3
ZARKOV4.5V, (13) 6.5 91 103 5
VIRTUAL-CHESS2, (7) 6.5 89˝ 104 5
22-23 GENIUS6.5 CZUB-STYLE, (21) 6.0 93˝ 107˝ 4
WCHESS2000, (15) 6.0 90 104 3
24 COMET B37, (18) 5.5 93 108˝ 4
25 SOCRATES X, (22) 4.5 90 102˝ 4
26 CHINITO, (25) 3.5 88˝ 101 2
Download all games of Odyssey 2001 in PGN format.
FINAL elo-ratings after ROUND-15
Tournament: Odyssey-Tournament
No. Name ELO Rc Pts/G We Chg*10 Rp
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1.SHREDDER6, 2570 2525 12.0/15 8.40 36.0 2765
2.GAMBIT-TIGER14.6, 2635 2533 10.5/15 9.60 9.0 2682
3.REBEL-TIGER14.6, 2598 2518 8.0/15 9.15 -11.5 2539
4.HIARCS7.01, 2541 2522 8.0/15 7.95 0.5 2543
5.SHREDDER4 CHESSBITS, 2641 2513 8.0/15 10.05 -20.5 2534
6.CHESSMASTER8000 1.0.4., 2520 2529 7.0/15 7.35 -3.5 2508
7.VIRTUAL-CHESS2, 2530 2530 6.5/15 7.50 -10.0 2480
8.FRITZ7A, 2650 2549 8.5/15 9.60 -11.0 2599
9.JUNIOR7, 2594 2524 6.5/15 9.00 -25.0 2474
10.REBEL-CENTURY4, 2582 2530 11.0/15 8.55 24.5 2705
11.GANDALF432H, 2560 2530 9.0/15 8.10 9.0 2602
12.PHARAON 2.5, 2400 2543 8.0/15 4.65 33.5 2564
13.ZARKOV4.5V, 2521 2524 6.5/15 7.50 -10.0 2474
14.CHESS SYSTEM TAL2.03, 2408 2533 7.5/15 4.95 25.5 2533
15.WCHESS2000, 2509 2530 6.0/15 7.05 -10.5 2458
16.LITTLE-GOLIATH2000V3, 2480 2507 7.5/15 6.90 6.0 2507
17.PATZER311B, 2550 2525 6.5/15 7.95 -14.5 2475
18.COMET B37, 2510 2519 5.5/15 7.35 -18.5 2424
19.CRAFTY 18.12, 2500 2522 8.5/15 7.05 14.5 2572
20.NIMZO8, 2539 2549 7.0/15 7.35 -3.5 2528
21.GENIUS6.5 CZUB-STYLE, 2561 2525 6.0/15 8.25 -22.5 2453
22.SOCRATES X, 2420 2526 4.5/15 5.40 -9.0 2377
23.MCHESS8, 2450 2521 7.5/15 6.00 15.0 2521
24.YACE BERLIN, 2500 2543 8.5/15 6.60 19.0 2593
25.CHINITO, 2470 2511 3.5/15 6.60 -31.0 2300
26.GROMIT 3.10.2, 2480 2536 7.0/15 6.30 7.0 2515
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One of the greatest computer chess event ever is over
