Hi, good afternoon to everybody,
fourth match from 1/8th final is Mephisto Milano v2.00 (a Milano box with a Nigel Short ROM inside) vs CT800 1.42.
As the relative rankings suggest, no much trouble for the Chess 'T800' to terminate the humans -sorry, my bad- terminate the Schröder program and score two points.
Well, in the first game though, the 'Nigel Short' defends itself as White with stamina: fifty moves or so resistance, before going down in twenty additional moves.
For the CT800 playing as White, fifteen moves were enough to dominate, and twice as much to force the Milano into resignation.
[Event "The 64-cup"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2023.11.19"]
[Round "8th_final"]
[White "Mephisto Milano v2.00/N. Short (lv T40/10)"]
[Black "CT800 1.42 (lv GMI 5m+10s)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2008"]
[BlackElo "2291"]
[EventDate "2023.09.26"]
[ECO "E95"]
[PlyCount "140"]
1.c4 g6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.d4 d6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Be2 {Out of book} 6...O-O {Out of book} 7.O-O {Back in book} 7...e5 8.Re1 exd4 9.Nxd4 Re8 10.f3 {Out of book} 10...Ne5 11.f4 Ned7 12.Bf3 Nb6 13.b3 d5 14.cxd5 Nfxd5 15.Nxd5 Nxd5 16.e5 c6 17.a3 Qb6 18.Bxd5 cxd5 19.Be3 Qa6 20.Rc1 Qa5 21.Qd3 a6 22.b4 Qd8 23.Bf2 a5 24.b5 a4 25.Rc3 Bd7 26.Rc5 Bg4 27.Nf3 Be6 28.Rec1 Bh6 29.Qe3 Rc8 30.Rxc8 Bxc8 31.Nd4 Bd7 32.Rc2 Bg4 33.h3 Bc8 34.Rc5 Bf8 35.Rc3 Bh6 36.Rc1 Bg7 37.Nf3 Qa5 38.Rc5 Be6 39.Nd4 Rf8 40.Rc1 Qb6 41.Qd3 Qa5 42.Nf3 Rd8 43.Bh4 Qb6+ 44.Kh2 Ra8 45.Nd4 Bd7 46.Bf2 Bf8 47.Qf3 Be8 48.Rc3 Bxb5 49.Qxd5 Be8 50.Bh4 Bh6 51.f5 $6 {Qe4 would have stabilized the King's shelter} 51...Bf4+ 52.g3 Bd2 53.Rd3 Bc1 54.fxg6 hxg6 55.Qc4 Qb2+ 56.Qc2 Qxc2+ 57.Nxc2 Rc8 58.Ne3 Bb5 59.Rd5 Be2 60.e6 fxe6 61.Re5 Kf7 62.Ng2 Rc2 63.Ne3 Ra2 64.Kg1 b5 65.Re4 Bd3 66.Rf4+ Ke8 67.Ng2 Bxf4 68.Nxf4 Rxa3 69.Nxe6 b4 70.Nc7+ Kf7 {Milano v2 resigns} 0-1
[Event "The 64-cup"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2023.11.19"]
[Round "8th_final"]
[White "CT800 1.42 (lv GMI 5m+10s)"]
[Black "Mephisto Milano v2.00/N. Short (lv T40/10)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2291"]
[BlackElo "2008"]
[EventDate "2023.09.26"]
[ECO "D02"]
[PlyCount "61"]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Bf5 4.e3 e6 5.Bd3 {Out of book} 5...Bxd3 6.Qxd3 c6 7.Qb3 b6 {Out of book} 8.c4 dxc4 9.Qxc4 Qd5 10.Qa4 b5 11.Qc2 Bb4+ 12.Nc3 Qe4 13.Qb3 Bxc3+ 14.bxc3 Nd5 15.Bd6 Qg6 $6 {Nb6 would have prevented c4 push pressure} 16.O-O a5 $6 {second chance missed} 17.c4 $1 a4 18.Qb2 a3 19.Qb3 Ne7 20.cxb5 Qe4 21.b6 Qd5 22.b7 Ra7 23.Bxb8 Qxb3 24.axb3 Rxb7 25.Bd6 Rxb3 26.Bxa3 Rb5 27.Bc5 Nc8 28.Ne5 Rb8 29.Nxc6 Rb7 30.Ra8 Rc7 31.Ne5 {Milano v2 resigns} 1-0
MfG,
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