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| Oct-30-05 | | csmath: Fruit is now superior to Shredder 9 and to Fritz 9. And no other engine comes even close. Zappa is still unknown since nobody was able to test it independently from the author. |
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| Oct-30-05 | | you vs yourself: <csmath> Why wasn't 21...Rc8 played? Maybe after Bd3, you could've moved your knight to c5 or b6 if Bc4. And I thought you had a chance to move your rook to c8 earlier too. Good game. I wonder why you didn't try Qa5+ and then Qxa6 in the final position instead of e4. |
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| Oct-31-05 | | csmath: 21. ... Rc8 is possible.
22. Bc4
Now I don't think you can make Nb6 or Nc5 since after Nxe5 I am losing a crucial defence of g7 and I would be pretty much lost. I have to keep knight to go on e5 if the bishop is taken. But 22. ... a5
works fine.
Anyway, I wasn't losing the game at this point, I lost it after the stupid plan in 41st move. After that everything's gone down. I might need to start playing Petroff. :-) |
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Nov-04-05
 | | BishopBerkeley: <Chessgames.com> I'm glad you've all come through the storms intact! I wonder if the Zappa games from the 2005 World Computer Championship are likely to be added any time soon? I submitted them on Sep 27. I suspect you do have quite a backlog of games to work through. Thanks!
(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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Nov-13-05
| | BishopBerkeley: Bravo <Chessgames.com>!! All 11 games from Zappa's stunning & historic +10 =1 -0 (!!!) victory at the World Computer Chess Championship (Aug 13-21, 2005, Reykjavik, Iceland: http://www.ru.is/wccc05/ ) have now been posted! They should afford many interesting hours of study for members of this fine site. I am also delighted to see that Fruit (Computer) now has its own message board here at Chessgames.com Well deserved, Fruit!! Excellent work!!
(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
Nihil obstat.
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Nov-13-05
| | BishopBerkeley: Some nice photos from the 2005 World Computer Chess Championship held at Reykjavik University in Iceland last
August:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/acozzie2/...-
05/
or, if that doesn't work,
http://tinyurl.com/dx2bv
Courtesy of the Zappa homepage:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/acozzie2/...
(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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| Dec-19-05 | | Radbul: And what about games from 25th Dutch Open (http://www.computerschaak.nl/docc05...) which Zappa (v2.1b) scored 7.5/9.0 for first place out of a field of 16 programs? (november 2005) And games that were already played in CSS OM 2005/6 Chempionships(http://www.beepworld.de/members39/c...)? Will they be avarible at the end of February when the CSS OM 2005/6 is over? |
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| Dec-19-05 | | Norman Glaides: There's a big dilemma about my Big Leg Emma. |
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| Dec-19-05 | | sneaky pete: Ah hah hah, oh yeah! |
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| Dec-19-05 | | meloncio: She was my steady date, until she put on weight!!
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| Jan-04-06 | | Jafar219: Who is the creator of this computer? Frank Zappa? |
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| Jan-04-06 | | csmath: It is Anthony Cozzie, grad student in Urbana. He is a program creator, machine he used is a standard dual Opteron dual core. |
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| Jan-05-06 | | blingice: In downloading and installing Zappa from it's homepage: does anyone understand how? I have Arena and put the Zappa engine into it, but it has a message saying "Error: 'CreateProcess'" Explanations? |
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| Feb-21-06 | | Whitehat1963: Who knew Frank was so good at chess? Only one loss in the database, and that one was avenged! Can this one be purchased OTC? |
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| Feb-21-06 | | Jim Bartle: Was Frank ever on the Howard Stern show? Now that would have been interesting... "This band is starving, man..." (from Uncle Meat) |
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| Feb-21-06 | | Whitehat1963: <Jim Bartle>, you are my comic relief. Thanks! |
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| Feb-21-06 | | Appaz: <-- Comments should not be necessary :) |
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| Mar-15-06 | | chessmoron: Hey chessgames, I thought Zappa loses 2 games, argonaut and rybka not 1 |
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Apr-13-06
| | BishopBerkeley: Zappa is now available commercially: under the name "Zap!Chess". And (surprise, surprise) Chessbase is distributing it: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...
(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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| Apr-13-06 | | Dionyseus: <BishopBerkeley> Rybka will surely be next, and soon I presume. |
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Apr-13-06
| | BishopBerkeley: <Dionyseus> Wouldn't surprise me at all! And yet, I wonder if the combined sales of the Chessbase programs have yet exceeded the sales of Chessmaster (Computer) ? I think Chessmaster remains the bestselling single Chess program of all time, though that may have changed. I think this is because of its user-friendliness, its extensive distribution network (I think it is on the shelves of all of the large office supply stores and many other stores), and its quality. It isn't as strong as Zappa (Computer) or Rybka (Computer) , but it is plenty strong for most serious players! (It has a rating of 2716 on this impressive list of competitors: http://web.telia.com/~u85924109/ssd... , 2723 on this list: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/rati... ) (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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Apr-13-06
| | BishopBerkeley: P.S. If anyone would like to download a free *complete* Chessplaying program (easy-to-install with a 2654 rating: not just an engine, but also an attractive interface) you might check out "Slow Chess Blitz": http://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/slo...
Rating shown here:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/rati...
P.S.2. On this rating list, Chessmaster (Computer) is listed by the name of its engine "The King" (rating 2723). (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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Apr-30-06
 | | Open Defence: <Frank was so good at chess> Chunga's revenge ? |
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| May-25-06 | | Dionyseus: In this position from the first round game of Zap-Jonny:
click for larger viewJonny played the incomprehensible 153...Ka1?? completely throwing away an easy win. |
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| Jun-18-06 | | chessmoron: Why is there no testing on Zap! Chess Reyjavik? This should be better than Paderborn. |
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