Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 06:05:40 08/05/01
Sometimes it is very easy to get a draw - even against the strongest chess
programs - below the latest example of my own practice:
[Event "Chess Tiger 14 40/40'"]
[Site "Wetzikon"]
[Date "2001.08.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chess Tiger 14.0"]
[Black "Utzinger, K."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2632"]
[BlackElo "2004"]
[Annotator "2001-08-05"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2001.08.04"]
{White: Chess Tiger 14.0 AMD TB 1,4 GHz/256, 192 MB hash ponder=on / 4-5 men
TB's Book: Tiger.ctg Time control: 40/40' + 40/40'+40' } 1. e4 {This was the
third game against Chess Tiger 14. The first one ended in a draw whereas the
second one went lost. 1} 1... c6 {This time I sat down well prepared and so I
decided to play the Caro-Kann-Defence which is my favourite system against
e2-e4 players. 3} 2. d4 {0} 2... d5 {1} 3. Nc3 {0} 3... dxe4 {
A good alternative is here 3...g6, another system I like very much. 2} 4. Nxe4
{0} 4... Bf5 {In a still running correspondence game I tried 4...Sd7, but
against Chess Tiger 14 it seemed to me that it would be wiser to choose a less
sharp continuation. 3} (4... Nd7 5. Bc4 Ngf6 6. Ng5 e6 7. Qe2 Nb6 8. Bb3 h6 9.
N5f3 a5 10. c3 c5 11. Bf4 a4 12. Bc2 Nbd5 13. Bd2 Qc7 14. a3 Bd7 15. Qd1 cxd4
16. Nxd4 Bc5 17. Ngf3 e5 18. Nf5 Bxf5 19. Bxf5 e4 20. Nd4 Qe5 21. Bg4 e3 22.
Bxe3 Nxe3 23. fxe3 Qxe3+ 24. Be2 Ne4 25. Rf1 Nxc3 26. Qc1 Qxc1+ 27. Rxc1 Nxe2
28. Nxe2 Bd6 29. Kf2 O-O 30. Rfd1 Be5 31. Rc2 Rfc8 {
Alpert,A (RUS)-Utzinger,K (SWZ)/corr Vl EU/MSM/S1-11 1999 (31)}) 5. Ng3 {0}
5... Bg6 {1} 6. h4 {0} 6... h6 {2} 7. Nf3 {0} 7... Nd7 {2} 8. h5 {0} 8... Bh7 {
2} 9. Bd3 {0} 9... Bxd3 {1} 10. Qxd3 {0} 10... Qc7 {4} 11. Bd2 {0} 11... e6 {3}
12. O-O-O {0} 12... O-O-O {7} 13. Ne4 {0} 13... Ngf6 {2} 14. g3 {0} 14... Nc5 {
In my opinion, this knight move is much better than theory says. I have played
this maneouvre on various occasions but never encountered any difficulty. On
the contrary, it is not unusual that the White players - with the aim of
winning - overestimate their position allowing Black a positional sound
counter attack.2} 15. Nxc5 {0} 15... Bxc5 {1} 16. c4 {0} 16... Rhe8 {14} 17.
Bc3 {0} 17... Qe7 {4} 18. Ne5 {0} 18... Bb6 {5} 19. Qe2 {0} (19. f4 Nd7 20. Qe2
Nxe5 21. Qxe5 f6 22. Qe2 c5 23. dxc5 Bxc5 24. Rhe1 Rxd1+ 25. Rxd1 Rd8 26. Rxd8+
Kxd8 27. b4 Bd6 28. c5 Bc7 29. Kc2 e5 30. fxe5 Bxe5 31. Bxe5 fxe5 32. Qe4 {
1/2-1/2 Lanz Calavia,J (ESP)-Utzinger,K (SWZ) /corr Vl EU/MSM/S1-11 2001})
19... Nd7 {2} 20. Nf3 {0} 20... Nf6 {3} 21. Ne5 {Chess Tiger's last book move 0
} 21... Nd7 {1} 22. Nf3 {
Is Chess Tiger with anti-human-play activated ready for a draw? 108} 22... Nf6
{43} 23. Ne5 {draw by threefold repetition of moves 121} 1/2-1/2
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