Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:21:01 05/17/98
Hi all: I have always liked Comet program and I had even been one of those guys that purchased it when it was not still free, so please don’t take the following as a kind of attack or dislike of the product. Is just that I cannot subscribe what is being said here about his tremendous power. My feeling after just one game -truth, is not enough- is that Comet has certain serious strategic problems, as you can see in the following game I played at 40 moves in 60 minutes. I should have crushed Comet but obviously I lost the thread somewhere and Comet handled things to get finally a draw, but what I want to show you in the first half of the game is how Comet was cramped beyond what you expect of a current strong program. You will see how few opposition he putted against my pressure. Maybe Comet fell in a line that is bad for him? Ulrich, what do you think it happened? [Event "test"] [Site "Santiago"] [Date "1998.05.17"] [Round "1"] [White "fernando"] [Black "comet90"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd2 cxd4 7. exd4 Nc6 8. Nf3 d5 9. c5 Bd7 10. a3 Bxc3 11. Bxc3 Qb8 12. Bd3 b6 13. b4 a6 14. O-O Rc8 15. Rfe1 h6 16. a4 a5 17. b5 Ne7 18. c6 Be8 19. Ne5 Rc7 20. Bb2 Qd8 21. Qd2 Rac8 22. Rac1 Rb8 23. Ba3 Rbc8 24. f3 Ra8 25. Kh1 Rb8 26. Rg1 Ra8 27. g4 Nh7 28. Bxe7 Qxe7 29. Rg3 Nf8 30. f4 f6 31. Nf3 Bg6 32. Re1 Bxd3 33. Qxd3 Qb4 34. Ra1 Qd6 35. g5 Qxf4 36. gxf6 Qxf6 37. Ne5 Qh4 38. Rg4 Qh5 39. Rag1 g5 40. Qg3 Rg7 41. Qf3 Qe8 42. Qh3 Rh7 43. Rh4 Kg7 44. Rf4 Ra7 45. Qf3 Ng6 46. Nxg6 Qxg6 47. Rf8 Rh8 48. Rxh8 Kxh8 49. Rf1 Kh7 50. Qe3 Rf7 51. Rxf7+ Qxf7 52. Kg2 Qg6 53. Qe2 Qb1 1/2-1/2 I thought that after white get the e pawn and begins to threaten black with his c pawn, a serie of eternal checks would follow. Nevertheless, maybe if I had had less tired -it was late in the night- some method still rested to win the day...
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