WCSC 2019 Starting

[mjlef]

The World Chess Software Championship is about to start in Macau. This page has links to the live games and results:

https://icga.org/?page_id=2804

There will be six rounds today and four tomorrow. All programs are playing on identical laptops.

Mark

[Graham Banks]

What happened to the Komodo-Ginkgo game in Round 3?

I see 1.e4 c5 Draw.

[mjlef]

From the event pgn file:

[pgn][Event "World Chess Software Championship"] [Site "Macau, China"] [Date "2019.08.11"] [Round "3.2"] [White "Komodo"] [Black "Ginkgo"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "B90"] [Opening "Sicilian"] [Variation "Najdorf, 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 Nbd7"] [TimeControl "120+6"] [Termination "normal"] [PlyCount "87"] [WhiteType "human"] [BlackType "human"] 1. e4 {[%clk 00:45:24]} c5 2. Nf3 {[%clk 00:45:35]} d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. f3 h5 9. Nd5 Bxd5 10. exd5 Nbd7 11. Qd2 g6 12. O-O-O Nb6 13. Kb1 Nfxd5 14. Bf2 Nf6 15. Bh4 Be7 16. Bxf6 Bxf6 17. Qxd6 Qxd6 18. Rxd6 Na4 19. Be2 Ke7 20. Rhd1 Rad8 21. Rxd8 Rxd8 22. Rxd8 Kxd8 23. c3 b5 24. c4 b4 25. c5 Be7 26. Bc4 f6 27. Bxa6 Nxc5 28. Bc4 Nxb3 29. Bxb3 Ke8 30. Bd5 f5 31. Kc2 Bd6 32. Kb3 Ke7 33. Kc4 h4 34. Bc6 Ke6 35. Be8 Kf6 36. Kd5 Bc7 37. Bc6 Kg5 38. Be8 e4 39. fxe4 fxe4 40. Kxe4 Bxh2 41. a4 bxa3 42. bxa3 Bd6 43. a4 Bb4 44. Kd4 1/2-1/2 [/pgn]

I was told there are having problems with the live game transmission in the current round 5.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Mark.