Author: Gigi Aragon
Date: 07:51:05 03/21/04
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Thanks for posting your game! I rarely see games played by human against a dedicated chess computer. Nice commentaries too. Greg On March 19, 2004 at 18:44:19, J. C. Boco wrote: >This is a game I should have won but managed to lose. I searched the archives >but couldn't find the message of the guy who wanted to see it. Sorry I don't >remember your name. > >Star Diamond (White) >40 moves in 57 seconds >Estimated to be 1502, given that 40 moves in 2 hours equals 2200. > >Me (Black) >40 moves in 2 hours > >1. f4 Nf6 >2. b3 d6 I actually spent 4 minutes on this move, just trying to figure out >what the bird opening was. You know, remembering all that deep theory to move >36. >3. Nc3 Nc6 >4. d3 e5 I think e5 is not book, but anything goes at my level. >5. Nf3 PxP >6. BxP d5 >7.e3? This is an error because I now can win material. Although I almost >missed it. Here I spent about 10 minutes looking around and demanding that I >make use of the fact that S.D played b3 but then his bishop ends up on f4. So I >was very proud of myself when I found... > >7. ... Bb4 >8. Qd2 d4! I spent another 10 minutes on this to make sure it worked. I give >myself the exclam because I don't often make good moves. > >9. NxP NxN >10. a3 BxN >11. QxB Nc6 Looking good! I'm up 2 pawns. Anyone can win with 2 pawns, >right? Anyway, I spent about 5 minutes on this move trying to figure out the >best place for the knight. I probably didn't find it, but at least it looks >good. I've spent a total of 27 minutes so far. > >12. Be2 OO >13. Bg5 Nd5! Another exclam for myself, for a move which took about 9 minutes >to make. I could keep my 2 pawn plus, although I'd get doubled pawns. But I >wanted to play more dynamically, I wanted to play like just a little bit of >Kasparov. So I asked myself what would Kasparov's little toe do, and I decided >it would give up a pawn to both prevent doubled pawns, but also to gain an open >file. > >14. BxQ NxQ >15. BxP Re8 >16. e4 Be6? Now my peculiar thought processes give me the boot. Nd4 was >better. I've found that when I give myself a "?" I have almost always spent a >lot of time on the move. This one took about 8 minutes. Why is Nd4 better? I >forgot, actually. I just have that written on my scoresheet and circled. I put >this game in REBEL and that's what it liked. > >17. Bh5 QRc8. 7 minutes >18. Bf4 Nd4 5 minutes >19. Rc1 Rc5? The computers all like Na2. Of course they do! I should too! >Anyway, I'm proud of my advanced knight and wanted to keep it on that square. >It does look very nice, doesn't it? It's eyes burn red with rage against the >white pieces. But what I should have done is realize that the knight would have >to go sometime to allow the rook to blast through. Thus I don't move the >knight. Bad decision. The knight is ready for battle but so long as it doesn't >have to expend the effort to actually go anywhere. This reminds me of some >people I know. Interesting..... Since it's a ? move I didn't spend much time on >this move. > >20. Be3 Rd8 about 18 minutes on this move. It's hard to know where to place >your rooks you know. When I use the salt and pepper at dinner, I often will >hold onto them because I can't decide where to put them down. Sometimes I don't >season my food because it requires too much thought. > >21. Bd1 f5 12 minutes on this move. You may now understand why I often find >myself in time trouble in my games. I guess I like the spinning red discs in my >Saitek analog chess clock. >22. Bg5 Rd7 >23. b4 Rc8 >24 PxP BxP OK, I now have 12 minutes left for my next 16 moves. >25. Be3 Re7? It took 2 minutes to make this bad move. It's bad because Na2 is >still good. > >26. Kd2 QNb5. I spent 5 minutes on this move. Plenty of time left... >27. Bh5 Nd5? One minute spent on this one, when looking at my notes I see >that I should have played b6. I can't remember the board position right now >typing away, but if you are playing through this game perhaps you can remind me >why it's good. > >28. Bc5 R7c7 >29. QRf1 g6 >30. c4 b6! I'm not sure why I gave myself an exclam. Perhaps it was because >of my wise use of time. I spent 2.5 minutes on it. Now I have 1.5 minutes >remaining. But hey, I'll keep a cool head. Oh, for that guy playing through >this, please tell me if b6 rates an exclam. >31. Bf3 b6xc5??? Ugh. First of all, I was now using dashes to mark my moves. >When this game was over I had to take the moves back on the computer and fill in >the scoresheet. For some reason I did this as I took each move back, and >instead of writing down PxP I wrote down what the computer said, namely b6xc5. >I only relate this exciting event in case you are wondering why I change to full >algebraic now. > >32. Wait, back to 31. I don't remember why b6xc5 (or, PxP if you prefer) is >bad. I'd play through the game to find out, but memory repression is sometimes >a good thing. > >32. f3d5 g8g7 >33. c4b5 c5b4 >34. a3b4 c7c2+ ? I don't remember why the ?. I think pure defensive moves >would have kept an even game or something. I probably don't really want to >remember. > >35. d2e3 c8e8? Bad moves come in pairs. >36. e3d4 c2b2 >37. f1e1 e8e1 >38. h1e1 b2b4+ >39. d5c4 b4b2 >40. e1e7 g7h6 Here we come to a mighty controversial move. I had been ticking >off the moves and counting on my fingers, as all strong men are known to do in >times of great hardship. In counting my fingers, I made the mistake on >remembering something about Kasparov's little toe and I guess I counted that as >a move that I didn't really make. The upshot is that I thought the move b4b2 >was actually move 40. The result would be a loss on time (I have the computer >set at 40 moves in 2.5 hours for me, but I use a chess clock as the official >timepiece for me). So that extra time on my Star Diamond clock didn't flag me >even though I overstepped on the analog chess clock. I think the computer was >thinking "If this moron can actaully lose after having a 2 pawns plus, I don't >need to flag him. I also probably only need to use 2 AA batteries to beat him >rather than all four. 2 AA heavy duty batteries, not the alkaline ones, and >possible ones that had been in the smoke detector for awhile first, or that >flashlight in the back of the drawer. > >41.e7a7 b2g2 >42. ----------------- >43. b6 RxP In fixing my scoresheet and discovering the error, I left 42 blank. > So 43 is actually 42, you get the drift. >44. Bg8 g5 Speaking of drift, isn't this game an effortless demonstration on >how to drift from a win to a loss? >45. Kc3 Rh3 >46. b7 Resigns > >"Maybe I'll rub some salt in the would and flash my Low Batt signal".
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