Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Anyone played computer which gives queen odds?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 03:31:10 11/30/05

Go up one level in this thread


A queen is simply too much, and as Uri said, computers don't really play
well in positions with huge material odds.

I tried three games against my own program:  A queen odds game, a rook odds
game, and a knight odds game.  I won all three games fairly easily, and I am
a very weak chess player.

The games:

[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "aload.uio.no"]
[Date "2005.11.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Glaurung 051109"]
[Black "romstad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "40/300"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNB1KBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

{--------------
r n b q k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
R N B . K B N R
white to play
--------------}
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. Nc3 Nxc3 4. dxc3 d6 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. O-O-O g6 7. Nf3
Bg4 8. Be2 Bg7 9. Kb1 O-O 10. Rhe1 Qc8 11. h3 Bxf3 12. Bxf3 Nxe5 13. Bxe5
Bxe5 14. h4 Rb8 15. h5 b5 16. Rd3 b4 17. cxb4 Rxb4 18. Rb3 Qb8 19. hxg6
hxg6 20. Re2 Qb5 21. Kc1 c5 22. Rxb4 Qxb4 23. c3 Qc4 24. Kb1 Rb8 25. Rc2
Bxc3 26. Be2 Qd4 27. b3 a5 28. f3 a4 29. Rc1 axb3 30. a3 Qd2 31. Rxc3 Qxc3
32. Bd1 b2 33. Bc2 Qe1+ 34. Bd1 Qxd1+ 35. Ka2 b1=Q#
{Black mates} 0-1

[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "aload.uio.no"]
[Date "2005.11.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Glaurung 051109"]
[Black "romstad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "40/300"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

{--------------
r n b q k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
. N B Q K B N R
white to play
--------------}
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. d3 Bg4 7. Bd2 Qe7
8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 O-O 10. O-O h6 11. a3 Bxc3 12. Bxc3 Nd7 13. Qf5 Rad8 14.
Bb4 c5 15. Bc3 Qg5 16. Kh2 Qxf5 17. exf5 f6 18. Re1 Rfe8 19. Kg3 Nb8 20.
Re4 Nc6 21. Ra4 a6 22. Rc4 Rd5 23. b4 b5 24. Rxc5 Rxc5 25. bxc5 Nd4 26. Ba5
Re7 27. c4 bxc4 28. dxc4 Nxf5+ 29. Kg4 Nd4 30. Bd2 Rd7 31. Bc3 Nb3 32. f4
exf4 33. Kxf4 Nxc5 34. Kf5 Kf7 35. Kg4 g6 36. Bb4 f5+ 37. Kf3 Ne6 38. Ke3
f4+ 39. Ke2 g5 40. Bc3 h5 41. Bb4 g4 42. hxg4 hxg4 43. Be1 Kf6 44. a4 Kf5
45. Kf1 Ke4 46. a5 f3 47. Bg3 Rd1+ 48. Kf2 Rd2+ 49. Kg1 Rxg2+ 50. Kf1 Nd4
51. Bxc7 Nf5 52. Bb6 Ne3+ 53. Bxe3 Kxe3 54. c5 Rc2 55. Kg1 f2+ 56. Kg2 Ke2
57. Kg3 f1=Q 58. Kxg4 Kd3 59. Kh5 Rg2 60. c6 Qh1#
{Black mates} 0-1

[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "aload.uio.no"]
[Date "2005.11.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Glaurung 051109"]
[Black "romstad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "40/300"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

{--------------
r n b q k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
R . B Q K B N R
white to play
--------------}
1. d4 d5 2. e3 Bf5 3. Bd3 Bxd3 4. Qxd3 c6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. c4 e6 7. Qb3 Qb6 8.
O-O Qxb3 9. axb3 Ne4 10. Nd2 Nxd2 11. Bxd2 Bd6 12. f3 O-O 13. e4 dxe4 14.
fxe4 Nd7 15. e5 Be7 16. Bc3 Bg5 17. Kf2 f6 18. exf6 gxf6 19. Bb4 Rf7 20.
Rfe1 e5 21. Bc3 Re7 22. g3 a6 23. Kf3 Rae8 24. Kf2 exd4 25. Bxd4 Rxe1 26.
Rxe1 Rxe1 27. Kxe1 c5 28. Bc3 Be3 29. Ke2 Bd4 30. Bxd4 cxd4 31. Kd3 Nc5+
32. Kxd4 Nxb3+ 33. Kc3 Nc5 34. Kd4 Ne6+ 35. Kd5 Kf7 36. b4 Ke7 37. h3 Kd7
38. h4 b6 39. Ke4 Kd6 40. Ke3 a5 41. c5+ bxc5 42. bxa5 Kc6 43. g4 Kb5 44.
Kd3 Kxa5 45. Kc4 Kb6 46. Kd3 Kb5 47. Kc3 c4 48. h5 Kc5 49. Kc2 Kd4 50. Kd2
c3+ 51. Kc2 Kc4 52. Kc1 Kd3 53. g5 fxg5 54. h6 c2 55. Kb2 Kd2 56. Kb3 c1=Q
57. Ka2 Kd3 58. Kb3 Qb1+ 59. Ka3 Kc4 60. Ka4 Qa1#
{Black mates} 0-1

Tord



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.