Old but not forgotten

[AdminX]

I left my Quad on overnight playing Chess on Playchess. It likes to do that from time to time, so I figured why not since it's the Memorial Weekend over here. Why not let the computer have a little fun? When I woke up this morning around 6:30AM and went to my desk and found my computer playing none other than that old champ from the past ..., MChess Pro version 8. For those who don't remember that version was released around 1998-1999 by Marty Hirsch. It was being operated by a gentleman named Andreas Wutzke who was in the Playchess engine room playing in Centaur mode so he could relay the moves using some custom setting he developed.

MChess was playing on a AMD 2400 XP+ 2 GHz system versus Rybka 3 on a Intel Q6700 Core 2 Quad 2.67GHz. I can't tell you much about the MChess opening book or it's settings because I either don't know and or don't remember many details about the program from back then, but I can tell you that I had Rybka 3 using Jeroen's Aquarium Rybka 3 Opening Book installed using the Aquarium Book Adapter.

The Opening was a Sicilian Najdorf Poisoned Pawn variation.

[d]rnb1kb1r/1p3ppp/pq1ppn2/6B1/3NPP2/2N5/PPPQ2PP/R3KB1R b KQkq - 0 8

Rybka 3 played a Novelty on move 15 with 15. Nf3, but it was not enough to show that black could not survive by taking the b2 pawn in the opening.

[d]rnb1k2r/1p1nqpp1/p3p2p/4P3/3N4/2N5/P1PQB1PP/1R2K2R w Kkq - 0 15

By move 43 a draw was offered by Rybka, which was accepted.

[Event "Rated game, 90m + 45s"]
[Site "Engine Room"]
[Date "2009.05.23"]
[Round "?"]
[White "NYTed, Rybka 3"]
[Black "Alibaba, MChess Pro 8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B97"]
[WhiteElo "2596"]
[BlackElo "2329"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2009.05.23"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6 8. Qd2
Qxb2 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. e5 h6 11. Bh4 dxe5 12. fxe5 Nfd7 13. Be2 Be7 14. Bxe7 Qxe7
15. Nf3 O-O 16. Ne4 Nc6 17. Qc3 Qd8 18. O-O Qc7 19. Nd6 Ndxe5 20. Nxe5 Qxd6 21.
Nxc6 bxc6 22. Rfd1 Qc7 23. Qc5 a5 24. c4 Qa7 25. Qxa7 Rxa7 26. Rd6 Rb7 27. Rxb7
Bxb7 28. Kf2 g6 29. Rd7 Rb8 30. c5 Kg7 31. Ke3 h5 32. g3 Kf6 33. Rc7 a4 34. a3
Ba8 35. Ba6 g5 36. Ra7 h4 37. gxh4 gxh4 38. Bc4 Bb7 39. Rxa4 Bc8 40. Ra7 Ke5
41. a4 f5 42. a5 f4+ 43. Kd3 1/2-1/2

[Kirk]

In 2008 I wrote Mr Hirsch and he did plan of putting one out in 2009. We will see lol

Anyone who wants to email him can find him here:

http://www.chessmagnetschool.com/aboutus.php

" still intend to release this and I have started working on it, but have many other projects going, so it will take a while. I am hoping to make it available by fall 2009.

Cheers,

Marty Hirsch"

[AdminX]

In the 10th AEGON event at the Hague (May 1995), M-Chess 5.0 beat Christiansen and Z. Polgar and finished with a performance rating of 2652!

It also beat Grandmasters:

Rhode
Shabalov
Cifuentes
Wolff

So yes, it would be nice to see Marty come out with a new release.