2007 Gothic Chess Computer Championship, Round 1 Results

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2007 Gothic Chess Computer Championship, Round 1 Results

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SMIRF vs. Gothic Vortex, 0-1
Tornado vs. TSCP Gothic 64, 0-1
Variant Pulverizer vs. ChessV, 1-0
fmax4 vs. Zillions 2, 1-0

Special congrats to H. G. Muller's fmax4 program for topping the Zillions 2 engine. fmax is of course the smallest program possible to play Gothic Chess, given the total # of characters in the source code!

Links to the games:

http://www.gothicchess.com/javagames/db ... 5/game.htm

http://www.gothicchess.com/javagames/db ... 6/game.htm

http://www.gothicchess.com/javagames/db ... 7/game.htm

http://www.gothicchess.com/javagames/db ... 0/game.htm

Interesting position from Round 1: Black to move:

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Gothic Vortex parts with its Queen here with 7...Qxc7!? 8. Bxc7 and goes on to win the game!