Couldn't it be Kasparov's immortal vs. Topalov? Modern-day engines do find the move, but I believe engines at the time wouldn't find it (or would need 20+ minutes or something)
24. rxd4

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478

In case anyone was wondering, I dominated.

I also played 3 player chess, which was actually quite fun

Nicely done Alobar.

Classic Kasparov-Short game

Plus one.

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Interesting things going on in TCEC right now in Division 4, with Leela Chess Zero and DeusX, both neural network engines, having been admitted and allowed to play on graphics cards. They are currently in second and third place in the division of 8 engines with 5/7 and 5/8 respectively, with the brute-force engines they are playing against all rated roughly 3000. LCZero is in action right now (here) but the game looks drawish.

Kingscrusher is covering the Leela games if anyone is interested. He's covered a ton of Leela games over the last couple months. Leela has a pretty interesting play style, with a bias towards attacking play and a penchant for establishing advanced or passed pawns. Brute-force engines sometimes seem a little blind to how much of a long term advantage these things provide.

As I say that, Leela's brute-force opponent (Rodent) has made some mistakes. Stockfish d35 eval close to -1 now (Leela is Black).

The game against Rodent was a draw. Leela is now equal leader of the division.

TCEC also pitted Leela against Stockfish 9 for kicks. Stockfish was running on 43 cores and was estimated to have twice the computing power of Leela. Leela managed to defeat Stockfish as White from a Budapest Gambit start position, although she did easily lose the match. I think the score was 11-3 to Stockfish after Leela also lost from the Budapest start position as Black. It wasn't that it's a biased position though - Komodo could not beat Stockfish from the White start position and Stockfish's evaluation was 0.00 for many moves in the middlegame. This is kind of a big deal because only three engines have managed to beat the latest version of Stockfish in the past four years, when running on TCEC-standard hardware.

The game can be seen here.

I really miss playing chess

I have the perfect solution:

1) Start coaching again
2) Take me on as student
3) ????
4) Profit!

Leela graduated into div 3 on TCEC (as did the human-game-trained NN DeusX). She won her first game in div 3. Happening very shortly, like in a few minutes, is her toughest test yet, as she takes on the recently much improved and quite strong brute-force engine Ethereal, which is currently murdering Hannibal with the black pieces. Watch here.

I made an IM norm!

My rating is miles off the IM requirement (I'll be 2220 after gaining 100+ points in two tournaments) so I don't expect to be making more of these without serious improvement. But for now, second place in the national championships, and bragging rights.

One of my sounder wins:

[Event "Irish Championship"]
[Site "Stillorgan, Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.08.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Murray, David"]
[Black "Wall, Gavin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A83"]

1. d4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nc6 5. d5 Ne5 6. Qd4 Nf7 7. h4 c6 8.
O-O-O Qb6 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Qxe4 Qxf2 11. Nf3 Bh6+ 12. Kb1 Qe3 13. Qa4 Qf4 14.
Nd4 b5 15. Qb3 c5 16. Ndxb5 a6 17. d6 axb5 18. Nxb5 O-O 19. dxe7 Re8 20. Bc4
Rxe7 21. Nd6 Ba6 22. Bxf7+ Kf8 23. Bd5 Rd8 24. Qb6 1-0

That's fantastic, congratulations!!!

Holy crap, niiiiiiiiiicely done!!!

Holy ****!

Great job, mate!

You told me that you were in great form recently, but you haven't told me you are in IM-norm MAKING FORM MAN!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Can IM norms be transferred to players who just need 1 more norm for a title?

Asking for a friend...

Man That's awesome!

makes my brag look lame.


I came here to say I just repeated Laskers king walk in a bullet game

Anyone else look into the square off kickstarter/board? I love playing live chess, but don't have anyone to play against and was thinking that might restart my engine more so than playing online. Kind of like how I prefer live poker to online as I'm a very tactile person. My hesitatation is the 1 year warranty.

Surely there are tournaments and stuff somewhere near you?

Board looks cool. I'd never get it because I like playing blitz.

Just took a look:



Seems a little clunky in that the captured pieces aren't being moved fully off the board.

Looks similar to the Excalibur Phantom, but that did not have any connectivity.



There was also the Fidelity Phantom (Fidelity and Excalibur were started by a father and son, respectively)



(Yikes black lost a rook up ending there)

These date back to the early 80s so it's not exactly new technology. If they combined piece recognition (so you don't have to press squares), with self moving pieces, that would be something new I think.

Novag Robot Adversary had a robot arm:



And made a cameo in a movie:



The handshake and snarky attitude were not part of the original model

no Sinquefield thread?

A lot at stake today at Sinquefield. If Fabi beats Magnus he takes over the #1 spot. He's Black though so it's a long shot.

Carlsen's confessional booth appearance.

Magnus is the GOAT of trolling as well