On  October 20/21 2018 rofChade participated at the 12th ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships, and finished 1st together with Komodo and Chiron. After 2 tie breaks, Komodo won the tournament, while rofChade finished 3th.

The participating rofChade version was a preliminary version with first experimental evaluation elements.

This great result was not without luck. The game against Erdo ended in an easy win because of a GUI problem of Erdo. 

The game against Komodo seemed to end in a draw (which would have been great already…) but suddenly Komodo lost because of an internet problem.

Automato 
 icctd version: 8.1192 (Compiled Jul 28 2018 15:03:58)
 # 2262   The 2018 Twelfth Annual World Computer Rapid Chess Championships Round Robin Standard 25 4 unrated manager 
 ******   12 players/11 round (of 11)
          Managed by .   (Sat Oct 20 18  8:42 - Sun Oct 21 18 12:18)
          System: main TD: Automato
          max_bye_points:1000
          max_best:3000 last_sort:score scheduled: no
     Name                   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 Score  #g
   1 rofchade       (2762)  xx 1  1  =  =  1  1  =  =  =  1  1   8.5  11
   2 ChironX        (2784)  0  xx =  1  =  =  1  1  1  1  1  1   8.5  11
   3 Komodo         (3392)  0  =  xx 1  1  =  1  =  1  1  1  1   8.5  11
   4 BertaX         (2321)  =  0  0  xx 1  =  1  1  1  1  1  1   8.0  11
   5 ArasanX        (2437)  =  =  0  0  xx =  =  =  1  1  1  1   6.5  11
   6 Erdo           (2861)  0  =  =  =  =  xx 0  1  1  =  1  1   6.5  11
   7 WaspX          (2930)  0  0  0  0  =  1  xx 1  =  1  1  1   6.0  11
   8 NightmareX     (2712)  =  0  =  0  =  0  0  xx 1  1  =  1   5.0  11
   9 MarvinX        (2792)  =  0  0  0  0  0  =  0  xx =  1  =   3.0  11
  10 Goldbar        (2499)  =  0  0  0  0  =  0  0  =  xx 0  1   2.5  11
  11 TheBaron       (2606)  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  =  0  1  xx 1   2.5  11
  12 Telepath       (2285)  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  =  0  0  xx  0.5  11 

Thus, we have a 3 way tie for first. The first tie breaker is a double round robin G/10+1. The second tie breaker is a round robin G/3+1.

  
Automato 
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 # 2264   The 2018 Twelfth Annual World Computer Rapid Chess Championships Final Manual Blitz 10 1 unrated manager 
 ******   3 players/9 round (of 9)
          Managed by .   (Sun Oct 21 18 13:50 - Sun Oct 21 18 15:58)
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          max_bye_points:1000
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     Name                  R1    R2    R3    R4    R5    R6    R7    R8    R9    Score  #g
   1 Komodo         (3392) =w2   bye   =b3   =b2   bye   +w3   +w2   bye   =b3     4.0   9
   2 ChironX        (2805) =b1   =b3   bye   =w1   =w3   bye   -b1   +b3   bye     3.0   9
   3 rofchade       (2762) bye   =w2   =w1   bye   =b2   -b1   bye   -w2   =w1     2.0   9
 

Yesterday rofchade participated in the monthly HGM tournament and finished 5th after 9 rounds. A very nice result!. The results of the tournament are:

On 2 and 3 June 2018 a preliminary version of Rofchade participated in the 53th CSVN Programmer Tournament in Leiden. It was the first real tournament for Rofchade and for me as well, and after 2 days of hard processing Rofchade ended 3th together with chess22k. A very nice result which tastes like more !

The final ranking is as follows:

No.  PNo.  Name                       Score WP    SB

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 1.     7  Hiarcs                      9.0  36.0  36.00  
 2.     2  The Baron                   7.0  38.0  22.50
 3.     6  chess22k                    6.5  38.5  20.25
       10  Rofchade                    6.5  38.5  20.25
 5.     8  Arminius                    5.0  40.0  11.75
        9  The King                    5.0  40.0  11.75
 7.     3  RedQueen                    3.0  42.0   3.00
 8.     4  Spartacus                   2.0  43.0   1.00
 9.     5  Embla                       1.0  44.0   0.00
 10.    1  Gadget                      0.0  45.0   0.00

Further info and games can be found on the CSVN website.