Author: Jon Dart
Date: 13:11:36 06/22/99
I don't usually like to post losses, but the following game is an
interesting example of an effective kingside attack by a program
("Masterchess", which is an account running Comet). I have added
a few comments.
Ironically, Arasan's king safety code seems to be part of the
problem here - it is very reluctant to move pawns near the king,
and this probably makes it slower to see threats that involve
a pawn storm (since king safety is symmetrical, it thinks Black
won't damage his own pawn structure). Arasan would not play
..h5, as Comet did in this game, at least not at blitz time controls.
This code also likely contributed to avoiding f4 on move 16.
I clearly have some fixes to make..
Comet may not have found the best move in a couple of cases but
overall its play was very impressive. It is one of the more
aggressive Winboard programs (AnMon seems to be another one).
--Jon
[Event "ICC 5 3"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "1999.06.22"]
[Round "-"]
[White "ArasanX"]
[Black "Masterchess"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2553"]
[BlackElo "2752"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Keres defense"]
[ECO "A13"]
[NIC "EO.64"]
[Time "00:56:05"]
[TimeControl "300+3"]
1. c4 e6 2. d4 b6 3. e4 Bb7 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nb4 6. Nc3
Nxd3+ 7. Qxd3 Bb4 8. Bd2 Ne7 9. O-O O-O 10. b3 f5 11. e5 Ng6
12. Bg5 Qb8 13. Nh4 Nxh4 14. Bxh4 Bxc3 15. Qxc3 a5 16. Qg3
{probably better to play f4 here, stopping the following
attack} f4 17. Qg4 f3 18. g3 Rf5 19. Rfd1 Qe8 20. Qh3 h5
{this is good but Crafty 16.10 thinks Qg6 is better and Qh5
better still} 21. Kf1 {This is fatal. White had to play Kh1}
Kh8 22. g4 Rf4 23. Bg5 {loses quickly. Bg3 was better} Rxg4
24. Qxg4 hxg4 25. Ke1 Qg6 26. Be3 Qc2 27. Rd2 {White
resigns} 0-1
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