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Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Apr 7, 2017 04:00 AM UTC:

A request was made on another thread for games scores and/or analysis of Marseillais. I ran a self-play match with ChessV using about 12 total hours of thinking. Here is the score: 

 1. c2c4        b7b6,c8b7
 2. b2b3,c1b2   b7g2,g2h1 
 3. f1g2,g2h1   e7e5,d7d5 
 4. b2e5,d2d4   b8c6,c6e5 
 5. e2e3,d4e5   a8c8,f8b4 
 6. b1d2,a1b1   d5c4,b4d2 
 7. d1d2,b3c4   c7c5,d8d2 
 8. e1d2,d2c3   h7h6,c8d8 
 9. b1b6,b6b7   g8e7,h6h5 
10. b7a7,a7b7   f7f6,f6e5 
11. g1f3,f3e5   e7c6,c6e5 
12. f2f4,f4e5   e8g8,f8f2 
13. b7d7,d7d8   f2f8,f8d8 
14. e5e6,a2a4   d8d6,g8f8 
15. h1f3,h2h3   g7g5,h5h4 
16. f3b7,a4a5   g5g4,g4g3 
17. a5a6,b7g2   d6e6,e6a6 
18. c3d3,d3e4   a6d6,d6d2 
19. e4f5,f5g4   d2g2,g2g1 
20. g4h4,h4g4   g3g2,f8f7 
21. g4f5,f5e4   g1a1,g2g1=q 
22. e4d3,d3c2   a1f1,f1f2 
23. c2d3,d3e4   f7e6,g1g6
black wins by checkmate

Also, there have been 12 games completed on Game Courier. You can find the game logs by following this link.


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