Australasian National Computer Chess Championship live!

[Thomas McBurney]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Thomas McBurney at 20 July 2004 06:17:29:

Just a reminder that the Australasian National Computer Chess Championship can viewed live today.
The tournament will start at the following times:
Sydney: 7pm
London: 10am
Berlin: 11am
Hong Kong: 6pm
New York: 5am
Los Angeles: 2am
The games can be viewed live by using any ICS compatible client like Winboard. Connect to chess.tridgell.net port 5000. Log on as 'guest' with no password
The tournament will be a 5 round swiss and each game will be 20m+10s.
Participants:
1. Vanilla chess - Shaun Press
2. Fencer - Shaun Press
3. Kanguruh - Thomas McBurney
4. Warp - Peter McKenzie
5. Trace - Ross Boyd
6. Knightcap - Andrew Tridgell
7. Bodo - Joel Veness
8. Awesome - Bill Jordan
9. SEE - Tor Lattimore
10. Chompster - Scott Farrell
11. Desparado - David Blackman
12. Small Potato - Alejandro Dubrovsky
13. Python chess - Stephen Taylor

Cheers,
Tom.


NC3 2004

[Olivier Deville]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Olivier Deville at 20 July 2004 11:19:32:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Australasian National Computer Chess Championship live! geschrieben von:/posted by: Thomas McBurney at 20 July 2004 06:17:29:

Just a reminder that the Australasian National Computer Chess Championship can viewed live today.
The tournament will start at the following times:
Sydney: 7pm
London: 10am
Berlin: 11am
Hong Kong: 6pm
New York: 5am
Los Angeles: 2am
The games can be viewed live by using any ICS compatible client like Winboard. Connect to chess.tridgell.net port 5000. Log on as 'guest' with no password
The tournament will be a 5 round swiss and each game will be 20m+10s.
Participants:
1. Vanilla chess - Shaun Press
2. Fencer - Shaun Press
3. Kanguruh - Thomas McBurney
4. Warp - Peter McKenzie
5. Trace - Ross Boyd
6. Knightcap - Andrew Tridgell
7. Bodo - Joel Veness
8. Awesome - Bill Jordan
9. SEE - Tor Lattimore
10. Chompster - Scott Farrell
11. Desparado - David Blackman
12. Small Potato - Alejandro Dubrovsky
13. Python chess - Stephen Taylor

Cheers,
Tom.

Warp - Kanguruh currently running (game 5).
Go Tommy !
Olivier



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[Ross Boyd]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Ross Boyd at 20 July 2004 17:49:53:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Australasian National Computer Chess Championship live! geschrieben von:/posted by: Thomas McBurney at 20 July 2004 06:17:29:

Well, another fun, exciting and interesting night was had by all...
Congratulations go again to Peter McKenzie with Warp winning a 3 way playoff for 1st place against KnightCap (Andrew Tridgell) and Desperado (David Blackman).
As usual there were some upsets and a little misfortune. Joel Veness (Bodo) had a few crashes but was able to continue on his (slower) laptop. Very nerve wracking for him at a time when he'd rather be drinking Strongbow and enjoying the games.
Desperado is not a newcomer. David Blackman has been participating in the NC3 right from its first beginnings. It was good to see him back and in good form. Hopefully, he will let Desperado compete in more tournaments in future.
Its late, so forgive my brain fade and probable spelling mistakes...
As for Trace, I spent the day implementing checks in qsearch (because Joel said it was a good idea (!!) but couldn't quite debug enough to be confident it wouldn't fall over with half an hour before the start. So, I chickened out and ran the current beta instead... and drank a lot of beer.
CC in Australasia is alive and well - as you can see from the number of entries. Actually BlackKnight played in place of Chompster who unfortunately couldn't make it... so 14 entrants isn't bad at all. I think the main thing is we all had a good time and look forward again to next year.

Name Rating Score Perfrm Upset Results
----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ -------
1 -warp [2388] 4.0 [2247] [ 0] +12w +05w -03b +07w +04b
2 -desperado [2200] 4.0 [2216] [ 0] +10w +07w -04w +09b +05w
3 +KnightCap [2050] 4.0 [2272] [ 338] +06w +12b +01w -04b +08w
4 +tracex [2100] 3.5 [2255] [ 100] +09w =08w +02b +03w -01w
5 -bodo [2000] 3.0 [2092] [ 0] +14w -01b +08b +12w -02b
6 +vchess [1800] 3.0 [1829] [ 135] -03b +14w -07b +11w +12b
7 -SEE [1950] 2.5 [1899] [ 0] +11w -02b +06w -01b =09w
8 -spotato [1940] 2.5 [1618] [ 80] +13w =04b -05w +10w -03b
9 -awesome [1900] 2.5 [1572] [ 25] -04b +13w +14b -02w =07b
10 -fencer [1930] 2.0 [1379] [ 0] -02b +11w -12w -08b +13w
11 +BlackKnight [1210] 2.0 [1378] [ 390] -07b -10b +13w -06b +14w
12 -kanguruh [1935] 1.0 [1793] [ 0] -01b -03w +10b -05b -06w
13 +dubya [ 10] 1.0 [1476] [1590] -08b -09b -11b +14w -10b
14 +bimbo [1600] 0.0 [ 984] [ 0] -05b -06b -09w -13b -11b

Off the top of my head the playoff @ 3+2 went something like this.
KnightCap v Desperado 0-1
Desperado v Warp 0-1
Warp v KnightCap 1-0
Congratulations again to Peter, many thanks to Shaun Press and Andrew Tridgell for organising the event. Great stuff guys!
Best Regards,
Ross & Trace

[Olivier Deville]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Olivier Deville at 20 July 2004 18:30:11:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: Results Table geschrieben von:/posted by: Ross Boyd at 20 July 2004 17:49:53:

Hi Ross
I followed all the event live, it was really exciting !! Congrate to Peter and all participants... let's hope new versions (and even maybe new engines) will be out now.
Olivier


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