Armageddon
Armageddon,
a Polish chess program, a WinBoard compliant engine, optionally with an own GUI, written by Grzegorz Sidorowicz. Its first release comes from December 31, 1999, and the name is a pun based on prediction that the world would end in 2000 [2] .
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Tournament Play
Armageddon regularly played the Polish Computer Chess Championship and became runner up at the PCCC 2002 and PCCC 2003. It further participated at the CCT3, CCT4 and CCT5 on-line tournaments.
Selected Games
PCCC 2002, round 6, Belzebub - Armageddon [3]
[Event "PCCC 2002"] [Site "Lodz"] [Date "2002.09.14"] [Round "6"] [White "Belzebub"] [Black "Armageddon"] [Result "0-1"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.d4 g6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bd3 c5 6.O-O c4 7.Be2 Bb4 8.a3 Bxc3 9.bxc3 Ne4 10.Bb2 Qa5 11.Qe1 O-O 12.Ne5 f6 13.Ng4 e5 14.dxe5 Bxg4 15.Bxg4 fxe5 16.Be6+ Kg7 17.Rb1 Ng5 18.Bg4 Nc6 19.f3 h5 20.Bd7 Nb8 21.Bh3 Nxh3+ 22.gxh3 Nc6 23.e4 dxe4 24.fxe4 Rxf1+ 25.Kxf1 Qa4 26.Qd2 Rd8 27.Qe2 Qb5 28.Kg1 Rf8 29.Kh1 b6 30.Qd2 Qc5 31.Qd7+ Rf7 32.Qd5 Qe3 33.Qxc4 Qf3+ 34.Kg1 Qf2+ 35.Kh1 Qxc2 36.Re1 Rf2 37.Qf1 Rxf1+ 38.Rxf1 Qxb2 39.h4 Qxc3 40.Kg2 Qxa3 41.Rf3 Qb4 42.h3 Qxe4 43.Kg3 Nd4 44.Rf2 Qh1 45.Rg2 Qe1+ 46.Rf2 Qg1+ 47.Rg2 Nf5+ 48.Kf3 Qe3# 0-1
Forum Posts
- Armageddon Chess 1.0 by Martin Grabriel, CCC, January 04, 2000
- New Armageddon Chess II (2.131) by Grzegorz Sidorowicz, CCC, May 24, 2002
- Armageddon by Grzegorz Sidorowicz, CCC, September 02, 2003
External Links
Chess Engine
Armageddon
- Armageddon the final Battle from Wikipedia
- Armageddon (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Armageddon Fast chess from Wikipedia
- Armageddon Tiebreakers - Armageddon Games in Chess by Edward Scimia, About.com
- Apocalypse from Wikipedia
- Doomsday from Wikipedia
- End time from Wikipedia
- List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
- Ragnarök from Wikipedia
- The End from Wikipedia
- Wayne Shorter - Armageddon , YouTube Video
- lineup: Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Reggie Workman, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones
Yamandu Costa & Vincent Peirani - Armaguedon, Jazz à Porquerolles, 2018, YouTube Video