THE upset of the WC: Maverick-Komodo drawn!

[Jeroen]

In the WCSC Maverick just held Komodo to a well deserved draw! What a major upset .

After 20 moves white was simply better, in the end Komodo had zero chances for a win. Really, its book is killing the performance here, there is no denying.....

Congrats to Steve Maughan!

[Modern Times]

Just shows you, with a small number of games, anything can happen !

[hgm]

The point of course is that if a small number of games isn't able to establish your superiority, you are not really superior in any practical sense. People here tend to make an a big issue of a 30-Elo difference, but the typical user won't play the hundreds of games you need to see such a difference matter. They analyze a position from their own game, and wheter the chance the engine will indicate the best move in that particular position are 95.00% or 95.03% doesn't make the slightest difference to them.

[mar]

In the WCSC Maverick just held Komodo to a well deserved draw!

Congrats to Steve Maughan!

Wow, that's absolutely amazing!

considering that Komodo used 8 cores and Maverick 1,
the difference should be over 800 elo (not sure how much Steve improved since 1.0*)

So yes, congrats to Steve!!

[Harvey Williamson]

In the WCSC Maverick just held Komodo to a well deserved draw!

Congrats to Steve Maughan!

Wow, that's absolutely amazing!

considering that Komodo used 8 cores and Maverick 1,
the difference should be over 800 elo (not sure how much Steve improved since 1.0*)

So yes, congrats to Steve!!

Komodo uses 4 cores the same machine for everybody.

[mar]

Komodo uses 4 cores the same machine for everybody.

Oops, right, I misread the title page. But still ~800 difference according to CCRL.

[Jeroen]

Against Fridolin: another weird line and a drawish position after just 25 moves. But probably Mark L will be happy .

[Event "WCSC"]
[Site "Leiden"]
[Date "2015.07.05"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Komodo"]
[Black "Fridolin"]
[Result "*"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bf4 Bf5 4. f3 e6 5. g4 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. e3 Nc6 8. Bd3 Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Bb4 10. Nge2 Qe7 11. O-O-O O-O-O 12. Kb1 Kb8 13. Bg3 Rhe8 14. Nf4 e5 15. dxe5 Nxe5 16. Nfxd5 Nxd5 17. Nxd5 Nxd3 18. Nxe7 Rxe7 19. e4 Red7 20. cxd3 Rxd3 21. Kc2 Rd2+ 22. Kc1 Kc8 23. Rxd2 Bxd2+ 24. Kc2 Be3 25. Re1 Rd2+ *

[Damir]

Hi Jeroen

We are talking about Erdo here. Weird lines is his middle name.

[Modern Times]

So who is looking the most likely to win this title ?

[hgm]

Ginkgo. It plays Maverick and Fridolin in the last 2 rounds. The others all have very tough opponents.