Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 10:06:10 08/03/03
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On August 03, 2003 at 11:58:40, Richard Patterson wrote: >Here is a key point in the game with White to move. The time was set at 60 moves >per hour. I have a pentium 4 2.66Ghz with 1gb of ram. Move #18 for black was not >what I expected and after that move the postion was full of different mating >combinations :) This is one of my better games after not playing for 18 or so >years. If anyone has time please analyze in the different chess engines. You played an archetypal anti-computer game :) In my experience, such lines (rushing the g-pawn forward and breaking open lines after Black has weakened the Kingside with ... h6) are extremely difficult for computer programs to counter, except by not playing opening lines which get into such positions. Here are another two examples of the genre (move 17 in the second is a bit outrageous :): [Event "Casual Game"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "2002.04.04"] [Round "1"] [White "Alastair Scott"] [Black "Chess Genius for PalmOS 1.4"] [Result "1-0"] 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.b3 Nf6 4.Bb2 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.g3 Bg4 7.Bg2 Ndb4 8.Nf3 Be7 9.a3 Na6 10.b4 Bxf3 11.Bxf3 Nab8 12.b5 Na5 13.Qa4 c6 14.Rc1 a6 15.bxc6 Nbxc6 16.Nd5 O-O 17.Nxe7+ Qxe7 18.h4 Rad8 19.h5 Qd6 20.d3 h6 21.g4 Rd7 22.Rg1 Rfd8 23.g5 hxg5 24.Rxg5 Kh8 25.Qg4 f6 26.Rg6 Nb3 27.h6 Nxc1 28.hxg7+ Kg8 29.Bxc1 Nd4 30.Be4 Nc2+ 31.Kf1 b5 32.Qh5 Rxg7 33.Rxg7+ Kxg7 34.Bh6+ Kh8 35.Qf7 Ne3+ 36.fxe3 Qxa3 37.Qh7# 1-0 [Event "Casual Game"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "2003.07.25"] [Round "1"] [White "Alastair Scott"] [Black "Chess Genius for PalmOS 1.6 Zire 71"] [Result "1-0"] 1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3 e6 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.e4 Bb4 10.O-O Qc7 11.Re1 O-O 12.a3 Bxc3 13.bxc3 Rad8 14.Bg5 h6 15.Bh4 Rc8 16.Qd2 a6 17.g4 Nxg4 18.Kh1 c5 19.Rg1 h5 20.h3 Ngf6 21.Qg5 g6 22.Ne5 Nxe5 23.dxe5 Nxe4 24.Bxe4 Bxe4+ 25.Kh2 Kh7 26.Qf6 Bc6 27.Rg5 Rcd8 28.Rag1 Rg8 29.Rxh5+ gxh5 30.Rg5 Rxg5 31.Bxg5 Rd1 32.Qh6+ Kg8 33.Bf6 Rh1+ 34.Kg3 h4+ 35.Kxh4 Rxh3+ 36.Kxh3 Bg2+ 37.Kxg2 Qc6+ 38.Kg3 Qg2+ 39.Kxg2 a5 40.Qh8# 1-0
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