Announcement : Komodo knight odd match vs FM Victor Bolzoni

[Vinvin]

3 games are scheduled for Sunday 26/07. They will be play in my apartment, in Brussels.
The 3 last games will be play later (in 1 or 2 weeks, will be decide just after Sunday).

Game will start at 15.00 Brussels time, look here for other time area : http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/ge ... sz=1&swk=1

- Time control is 45 min + 15 sec/move for both players.
- The computer is an I7-4930K - 6 cores at 4.4 GHz, 8 GB hashtbales, syzygy 4-5-6 pieces.
- Komodo will play with the b1 knight missing.
- A special version of Komodo will be use. This version try avoid piece exchange unless the this exchanges give a substantial advantage.
- The first move of games will be decide by Larry Kaufman, to bring diversity in the tournament.
- Victor will win 25 euros for each won game, nothing for a draw game.
- I will broadcast the game on the FICS server on my account. No eval, no accurate clock there but I'll post the PGN (with eval) in this forum each 5 min or so.

For what I know about Victor's play :
He like tactical and open game (not good to play against a computer).
He have very few opening preparations and prefer understanding of positions (good for this match).

More details will follow ...

[JJJ]

Nice ! I want to follow this event and I hope many people will

[cc2150dx]

Awesome, can't wait

Pretty sure it's 9:00 a.m. EDT

[Uri Blass]

We talk about a player with fide rating 2187

https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=200433

[Vinvin]

We talk about a player with fide rating 2187

https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=200433

Yes, 2260 in year 2010.
If you want to see some past results, see here : http://www.365chess.com/players/Victor_Angel_Bolzoni

[Ferdy]

- Time control is 45 min + 15 sec/move for both players.
- The computer is an I7-4930K - 6 cores at 4.4 GHz, 8 GB hashtbales, syzygy 4-5-6 pieces.
- Komodo will play with the b1 knight missing.
- A special version of Komodo will be use. This version try avoid piece exchange unless the this exchanges give a substantial advantage.
- The first move of games will be decide by Larry Kaufman, to bring diversity in the tournament.

Ponder on?

[Vinvin]

- Time control is 45 min + 15 sec/move for both players.
- The computer is an I7-4930K - 6 cores at 4.4 GHz, 8 GB hashtbales, syzygy 4-5-6 pieces.
- Komodo will play with the b1 knight missing.
- A special version of Komodo will be use. This version try avoid piece exchange unless the this exchanges give a substantial advantage.
- The first move of games will be decide by Larry Kaufman, to bring diversity in the tournament.

Ponder on?

This was not discussed in details but the principle is the computer will play with all of its strength, so ponder will be "on".