Some Moments From Leiden 2007

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Hi Nid,
Yep,I am the guy in the avatar after a lot of plastic surgery
Trying to look like better,
Dr.Wael Deeb

What? ha lol.. I was actually talking to Enrico..

[Graham Banks]

Yes - thanks Enrico.

[ernest]

By the way, does the Rybka 2.2n2 picture mean that it wasn't R 2.3.2 which won the competition, but the old 2.2 version?

The Rybka 2.2n2 picture (rybka_916kns.jpg) apparently was taken at the end of Round 9 (against Scorpio)
It seems that the Vasik team previously found a hash bug and preferred to revert from 2.3.2 beta to 2.2n2

[Steve B]

Hello everyone.

* hiarcs_xinix.jpg -- Harvey Williamson(HIARCS) enjoys a beer over a game with Tony van Werten (Xinix.)

a BEER while in the middle of intense competition??


Now All Is Clear Regards
Steve

Hi Steve,
And note that Harvey was holding the beer in stereo mode

The 2nd beer was Enrico's even I am not that greedy!

Solid performance taking clear third Harvey!

we here in Collectors Corner Salute Team Hiarcs and Team Rybka

Both Teams well versed in the rich tradition of Dedicated Chess Computers

Bravissimo Regards
Steve

[Spock]

Solid performance taking clear third Harvey!

we here in Collectors Corner Salute Team Hiarcs and Team Rybka

Both Teams well versed in the rich tradition of Dedicated Chess Computers

Bravissimo Regards
Steve

http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=28

Hio Steve,

Yes, congratulations and a well deserved 3rd place. But I'm not sure you would say "clear third", they were 3rd equal on points with Deep Sjeng, but got 3rd on a tiebreak system

[Harvey Williamson]

Solid performance taking clear third Harvey!

we here in Collectors Corner Salute Team Hiarcs and Team Rybka

Both Teams well versed in the rich tradition of Dedicated Chess Computers

Bravissimo Regards
Steve

http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=28

Hio Steve,

Yes, congratulations and a well deserved 3rd place. But I'm not sure you would say "clear third", they were 3rd equal on points with Deep Sjeng, but got 3rd on a tiebreak system

In fact =3rd was awarded - we both get a trophy - Deep Sjeng had a really great tournament - it lost to Hiarcs - maybe we are its nemesis as we beat it twice now at Leiden, in the same way that Scorpio keeps beating Hiarcs.

A shame today was not a bit more exciting after the 3 on = points after day 2. A good tournament for Hiarcs - we played well - draws can happen v anyone at any time. The game v Scorpio was the only one where Hiarcs seemed to play badly.

[Steve B]

Solid performance taking clear third Harvey!

we here in Collectors Corner Salute Team Hiarcs and Team Rybka

Both Teams well versed in the rich tradition of Dedicated Chess Computers

Bravissimo Regards
Steve

http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=28

Hio Steve,

Yes, congratulations and a well deserved 3rd place. But I'm not sure you would say "clear third", they were 3rd equal on points with Deep Sjeng, but got 3rd on a tiebreak system

In fact =3rd was awarded - we both get a trophy - Deep Sjeng had a really great tournament - it lost to Hiarcs - maybe we are its nemesis as we beat it twice now at Leiden, in the same way that Scorpio keeps beating Hiarcs.

A shame today was not a bit more exciting after the 3 on = points after day 2. A good tournament for Hiarcs - we played well - draws can happen v anyone at any time. The game v Scorpio was the only one where Hiarcs seemed to play badly.

Actually on BU points ..Hiarcs was clear First

Third on Points it is then
either way ..third out of 15 deserves applause as far as the Collectors are concerned..

with a bit more practice against the oldies, Hiarcs will be ..
Unstoppable Regards
Steve

[Theo van der Storm]

A few more available now.. A quick note about the movie of Hans solving the Rubiks Cube.. You must right-click it and download it to your computer and then view it...

-elc.

http://jbo.gotdns.com/leiden2007/


* _hiarcs_sjeng_3rd.jpg -- Harvey Williamson (HIARCS) and Gian-Carlo Pascutto (Deep Sjeng) share third place. They will have a tug-of-war for the trophy later...

* _rybka_1st.jpg -- Hans van der Zijden (Rybka) accepts first place trophy from Cock de Gorter.

* _tessa_best_op.jpg -- Best Operator Award goes to Tessa Pijl: Her pick of a favorite snack!

* _winners_picture.jpg -- All prize winners pictured together.

* _zappa_2nd.jpg -- Erdogan Gunes (Zappa) accepts second place trophy.

Here are some pictures I made:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/thstorm/ICT7/
description:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/thstorm/ICT7/lst.txt
Some of them could turn up at the official site soon.

[Uri Blass]

By the way, does the Rybka 2.2n2 picture mean that it wasn't R 2.3.2 which won the competition, but the old 2.2 version?

The Rybka 2.2n2 picture (rybka_916kns.jpg) apparently was taken at the end of Round 9 (against Scorpio)
It seems that the Vasik team previously found a hash bug and preferred to revert from 2.3.2 beta to 2.2n2

It does not make sense because 2.2n2 also has a hash bug and here is the proof

Vasik knows about it and he thanked me for telling him about that bug in the old rybka forum

see the following thread

http://chessobserver.com/rybkaforum/viewtopic.php?t=562

New game
[D]3k4/4r3/8/3Q4/8/1P6/1PP1p1PP/7K b - - 0 1

Analysis by Rybka 2.2n2 32-bit :

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(, 21.05.2007)

[Tony Thomas]

Hans spend slightly more than 30 seconds and not 27 as mentioned in the thread.

Regards
Tony in Uri Blass mode.