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Stoofvlees wins ICGA World Computer Chess Championship 2023

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The WCCC is played in the Technical University of Valencia. The WCCC is played on open hardware allowing the participants to use the hardware most suitable for their programs. This ranges from single machines with many CPUs, machines with multiple fast graphics cards as well as computing clusters.

Arasan:
AMD Threadripper 3970x (32 cores)

Fritz:
2x Boston AMD Epyc 9654 (2x96 cores) overclocked
1.5 TB Ram

Jonny:
Cluster of 100 x AMD Epyc 7302 (100x32 cores)

Stoofvlees:
AMD Threadripper Pro 5995wx (64 cores, 128 threads)
4x nVidia RTX 4090  256 GB Ram

 Interesting game:


Partia mi si� podoba�a (ChessBase 16)
[Event "Round 12: Stoofvlees - Arasan"] [Site "lichess.org"] [Date "2023.07.14"] [Round "?"] [White "Stoofvlees"] [Black "Arasan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A01"] [PlyCount "129"] [EventDate "2023.??.??"] {[%evp 0,31,25,-20,-27,-37,-22,-25,-20,-18,-31,-14,-10,-10,-10,-42,16,22,96,13, 22,-1,-3,22,37,-11,47,45,66,37,37,30,135,92]} 1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nd4 d5 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. d3 Bd6 8. Nd2 Ng4 9. Qe2 exd3 10. cxd3 O-O 11. g3 Ne5 12. Bg2 Bg4 13. f3 Bc8 14. f4 Bg4 15. Qf1 f6 16. h3 Bh5 17. g4 Bg6 18. fxe5 fxe5 19. Qg1 Bb4 20. Ke2 e4 21. d4 Qb8 22. Kd1 a5 23. Qe1 c5 24. a3 Bxd2 25. Qxd2 Qxb3+ 26. Ke1 c4 27. Bc3 h5 28. Rf1 Bf7 29. a4 Ra6 30. Qb2 Qxb2 31. Bxb2 hxg4 32. hxg4 Rg6 33. Rf2 Ra8 34. Bf1 Rxg4 35. Rg2 Bh5 36. Rxg4 Bxg4 37. Bc3 Kf7 38. Be2 Bxe2 39. Kxe2 c6 40. Kf2 Kf6 41. Rb1 Ke6 42. Rb6 Kd6 43. Rb7 g5 44. Kg3 Ke6 45. Rc7 Kd6 46. Rh7 Rb8 47. Kg4 Ke6 48. Bxa5 Ra8 49. Bc7 Rxa4 50. Be5 Ra6 51. Rh8 c3 52. Rh2 Kd7 53. Kxg5 Ke6 54. Bf4 Rb6 55. Rc2 Rb3 56. Bg3 Ra3 57. Kf4 Rb3 58. Rc1 Ra3 59. Be1 Ra8 60. Rxc3 Rf8+ 61. Kg4 Rg8+ 62. Kh3 Kd6 63. Rc1 Rh8+ 64. Bh4 Rg8 65. Bg3+ 1-0

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