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Subject: Re: My game against Fritz 8 :) Comments welcome

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:28:37 08/03/03

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On August 03, 2003 at 13:06:10, Alastair Scott wrote:

>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


What does Chess Genius for Palm has to do with your pentium 4 2.66Ghz with 1gb
of ram?

Pichard





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