Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 08:26:15 02/19/99
Hi,
This is the first time I've posted one of my program's games here. I was
wondering what other programs think of the Knight sac (well, Knight for
two Pawns) that my program made. Obviously, it didn't work out, but it
*is* based purely on positional considerations. My program got to depth 7
before playing the move and it felt it had a score of +0.14. Had it reached
depth 8, it would have switched to Nh4, with a slightly negative score
(-0.15 I think), so on deeper consideration it felt that axb4 has a score
of less than -0.15.
What it liked about axb4 was the passed Pawn, plus the exposed White King on
the g-file. At the time, I thought it had overestimated the value of the Pawn
and later the h-file was opened by White anyway. So, does the move axb4
deserve a !? or a ?! or a ? or a ?? ? Any comments or advice welcome.
The opponent was GNUchess v4.15, running on a PII 450. Its rating is now
2400+ and it seems still to be on the up...
Anyway, here's the game:
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "1999.02.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "GNUChess"]
[Black "PostModernist"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2309"]
[BlackElo "2430"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann: Steinitz variation"]
[ECO "B17"]
[NIC "CK.09"]
[Time "17:37:46"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Bc4 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. c3 Ne4 8.
Nf3 Nd6 9. Be2 e6 10. O-O Be7 11. Re1 O-O 12. Bd3 Re8 13. Bf4 Nf5 14. b4 a5 15.
g4 axb4 16. gxf5 bxc3 17. Qc2 Qd5 18. Be4 Qc4 19. fxe6 Bxe6 20. Bxh7+ Kh8 21.
Bf5 Bxf5 22. Qxf5 Bf6 23. Be5 Be7 24. Rac1 Kg8 25. Re3 f6 26. Bg3 Bb4 27. Qd7
Rxe3 28. fxe3 c2 29. Qxb7 Rxa2 30. Qc8+ Kh7 31. Qf5+ Kg8 32. Bf4 Ba3 33. Qc8+
Kh7 34. Qh3+ Kg8 35. Qc8+ Kh7 36. Qf5+ Kg8 37. e4 Bxc1 38. Qc8+ Kh7 39. Qf5+ Kg8
40. Qc8+ Kf7 41. Qd7+ Kf8 42. Qc8+ Ke7 43. Qc7+ Ke6 44. Qd6+ Kf7 45. Qd7+ Kg8
46. Qe8+ Kh7 47. Ng5+ fxg5 48. Qh5+ Kg8 49. Qe8+ Kh7 50. Qh5+ Kg8 51. Qe8+ Kh7
{Game drawn by repetition}
1/2-1/2
Best regards
Andrew
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