I haven't much time lately that's why i didn't run any new rounds. I'm back at normal now......

Round 5 continued with an adventure win for me against GV. What a game! Game started after the opening with a favourable for me position, as i had set up for a typical "Gothic Vortex" attack and at
this point it seemed clear to me that G.V could not resist in any way.....My anti-comp game leading to an invisible for GV attack worked perfectly! And after 19.Ci3 i was sure that my attack was unstopable!
But the damn GV proved with precise moves, that there was a defense and after my primary attack
lost its power, GV seemed better. Then i created a smaller attack but again it was obvious that it will not lead anywhere....The final position before the endgame? I had a Bishop and a Rook against the
Queen of GV with a semi-open position, being one Pawn behind too. GV played generally wrong the
endgame allowing my h2-Pawn to advance to h7 so the game was draw anyway since GV had the option of
repeating the moves, giving checks.......
But then G.V played a terrible move -64...d3??- not continuing the series of checks and i immediatelly found the easy win......The bad thing for G.V is that after all exchanges that led to a position Rook+Bishop+1Pawn for me against 7 Pawns of GV, didn't show a decisive advantage for me but only a slight one......
This is logical since the capturing of Pawns would occur after many maneuvers and many plies later,
but todays programs are not "bean counters" that have to reach many plies to see the truth, but they
are supposed to be more knowledgeable.....GV is not a bean counter but not so knowledgeable as it has
to travel a long way until this happens.....
There was also the win of Zillions of Games against Smirf 0.59. I have underestimated ZoG after all! It is showing a rather nice performance...... ZoG in this game, ouplayed SM0.59 completely......


Round 5
Me - GV = 1-0
ZoG - SM0.59 = 1-0
SM1.20 bye....

Table after the 5th round out of 40:

PLAYER-|-ME---|-G.V----|-ZoG---|-SM120-|-SM059-| POINTS/GAMES

Me-------|++++++|1-------|1-------|1-------|1-------| 4.0/4.0

G.Vortex-|0-------|++++++|1-------|1-------|1-------| 3.0/4.0

ZoG------|0-------|0-------|1-------|++++++|1-------| 2.0/4.0

Smirf1.20-|0-------|0-------|+++++|0-------|1-------| 1.0/4.0

Smirf0.59-|0-------|0-------|0-------|0-------|+++++| 0.0/4.0

(1=win , 0=lose , ½=draw)

Next round 6:

Me - SM1.20
ZoG - GV
SM0.59 bye......


Me-GV 1-0
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1. f4 Nh6
2. d4 d5
3. Nj3 g6
4. Be3 Bf6
5. g3 Nc6
6. c3 Nf5
7. Bf2 Ah6
8. h3 O-O
9. e3 Ng7
10. Bf3 b6
11. Ah2 Ba6+
12. Kg1 Ni6
13. h4 Bg7
14. i4 Ag8
15. i5 Bc8
16. Ri1 Af6
17. Ai4 Bf5
18. Cg2 Qd7
19. Ci3 h5
20. ixh6 Bxh6
21. g4 Bj4
22. gxf5 gxf5
23. Kf1 Bxi3
24. Rxi3 Ag8
25. h5 Ng7
26. Bj6 Rh7
27. Ag5 f6
28. Axh7+ Kxh7
29. Ni5+ Ki8
30. h6 ixj6
31. h7+ Axh7
32. Bxj7+ Ki7
33. Nxh7+ Kxh7
34. Qe1 Kg6
35. Ri7 Cg8
36. Qxj6+ Kf7
37. Bi6 Ch8
38. Rh7 Ci8
39. Qj7 Nxd4
40. Na3 Nb5
41. Kf2 Rh8
42. Rh1 Rxh7
43. Rxh7 Kf8
44. Ri7 Ch8
45. Rxg7 Cxj7
46. Rxj7 Nxa3
47. bxa3 Qa4
48. j4 Ke8
49. Rh7 Qxa3
50. j5 Qxc3
51. j6 Qd2+
52. Be2 d4
53. Rh8+ Kf7
54. j7 Qxe3+
55. Kf1 Qxf4+
56. Ke1 Qi1+
57. Kf2 Qj2+
58. Kf1 Qj5+
59. Kg1 Qg5+
60. Kh1 Qc1+
61. Kg2 Qg5+
62. Kh1 Qc1+
63. Kg2 Qd2
64. Kf1 d3
65. Bh5+ Ke6
66. j8=Q Qxj8
67. Rxj8 c5
68. Ra8 c4
69. Rxa7 Kd6
70. Rb7 e5
71. Rxb6+ Kc5
72. Rxf6 c3
73. Ke1 e4
74. Rxf5+ Kd4
75. Rg5 c2
76. Kd2 e3+
77. Kc1 e2
78. Bxe2 dxe2
79. Rg1 Kc3
80. a4 Kb4 1-0


[Event "SmirfGUI Computerchess Game"]
[Site "USER-403C8545D2"]
[Date "2005.10.22"]
[Time "20:31:37"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ZoG"]
[Black "SM0.59"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "George Tsavdaris"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNB
QCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

{Game was terminated by passing the time limit.} 1.d4 g6 {(10.27) -0.183} 2.Af3
d6 {(11.33) +0.229} 3.Nh3 h6 {(09.38) +0.303} 4.Nc3 Na6 {(10.38) +0.338} 5.j4
c5 {(09.37) +0.290} 6.d5 Bxc3 {(14.40) +1.140} 7.bxc3 Af6 {(14.29) +1.047}
8.Ad2 Axd5 {(12.17) +1.050} 9.Axh6+ Nxh6 {(14.02) +1.034} 10.Qxd5 O-O {(13.28)
+1.036} 11.Cf3 Bg4 {(11.39) +1.186} 12.Ch4 Qd7 {(10.45) +1.045} 13.f3 Cf6
{(12.00) +1.022} 14.Qb3 Be6 {(09.57) +1.141} 15.c4 Cf5 {(09.52) +1.083} 16.Cxf5
Nxf5 {(12.42) +0.914} 17.j5 Nd4 {(13.38) +1.327} 18.Qd3 Nb4 {(13.03) +1.558}
19.Qd2 Rh7 {(13.02+) +0.642} 20.c3 Nbc2 {(13.19) +0.545} 21.Rb1 Bxc4 {(12.48)
+0.285} 22.cxd4 Nxd4 {(13.31) +0.315} 23.Nf4 Rxh2 {(09.56) +0.888} 24.Nh3 Bxe2+
{(17.53) -3.609} 25.Kf2 Kh7 {(15.53-) -M~003} 26.Qxi7+ Kg8 {(14.00?) -0.316}
27.Bh6 Rxg2+ {(12.46-) -M~002} 28.Bxg2 Nxf3 {(09.42-) -M~001} 1-0

I should note that the above PGN, in order to be pasted into Smirf has to be "fixed" first, as the

Brainking posts-system breaks the line with the FEN......