Deep Rybka 4.1 -- 100-game Match

Follow this event, if you care:

Houdini 1.5a x64 vs. Deep Rybka 4.1 x64
100 games @ 120 min./1st 40 moves; 120 min./next 40 moves; 90 min. + 30 seconds/move for rest of game

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

nice game BUT I PREFER Rybka.

Houdini is hard to chain down, especially if you're a little fish.

Witness the "stupidity" of computers. Go to the tournament link: http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm, load up game 10, jump to move 105, note that it's a draw, and see what happens when a computer is programmed to never settle for a draw.

Game 16 was a blow-out. Houdini defeated Deep Rybka 4.1 in a Closed Ruy Lopez today.

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

Houdini finally won as Black in a Semi-Slav in round 17. Nice tactic winning the exchange on move 51.

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

After 20 rounds, Houdini 1.5a x64 leads Deep Rybka 4.1 SSE42 x64 with a score of 5-2-13 (W-L-D). It got another win this morning in a Queen's Gambit Declined.

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

After 30 rounds Deep Rybka 4.1 SSE42 x64 now leads Houdini x64 by a score of 15.5 - 14.5.

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

After 40 rounds Houdini x64 now leads Deep Rybka 4.1 SSE42 x64 by a score of 20.5 - 19.5. Game 40 shows how to mate with a Knight and a Bishop!

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

After being dealt 4 losses, Rybka fights back for a win in a Semi-Slav in round 45:

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

After 50 rounds, it's a tie. Each engine has 10 wins, 10 losses, and 30 draws.

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

For the final 50 games, each engine will play the White side and the Black side of the same opening. In rounds 51 and 52, Houdini won as White and Black in a Queen's Indian.

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

After 60 rounds, Houdini leads by a score of 31.5 - 28.5 (15 wins, 12 losses, 33 draws).

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm

thx for the link. This match is cool.

man I just loss to a CM in a 15 game match barely in long (60min) time controls just barely (+5,=4,-6) but thismatch maks that seem like child's play.

It seems like Rybka has a better understanding of closed or semi-closed positions. It won as White in a French Classical and Houdini didn't. Rybka also won as Black in an English, 4 Knights. Take a look at rounds 63-66.

http://www.westportchessclub.org/computer-chess/rybka-vs-houdini-100-games-match.htm