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We have 30 guests online| Yury Markushin (1800) vs. Parrot (2200) |
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| Written by Yury Markushin |
| Saturday, 14 November 2009 22:05 |
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The game I played against 2250+ rated program. The name of the program is Parrot, it often plays on FICS. Here is a little analysis I did and some of my thoughts. 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 dxc4 7. Qxc4 Now I'm a little worried that I moved my queen too much in the opening. In 7 moves of the game I moved the queen 3(!) times, which is usually not a good sign. 8. e3 it is possible here to play e3 since if black plays 8… Ba6 trying to capture the f1 bishop and taking white's right to castle away, white can respond by playing 9.Qa4+ forcing trade of queens (white's bishop is hanging). Therefore, 8…O-O is stronger because there would be no check on a4 and white would have to think about retreating its queen. And 9… Ba6 is strong if white plays 9. Nf3. 8…Ba6 well, the program plays this move immediately. 12. Nf3 c5! 13. dxc5 I was considering 13. O-O but I was afraid of 13…c4. 18…Ne4 19. Be1 (Rd1 is also good, maybe even better than Be1 as I see now: 19. Rd1 Rc2 20. Bb4+ Ke8 21. f3 Nc5 22. Rd6 Rb8 which is a little bit sharper that I'd like it to be here). 19…e5 20. f3 (I definitely do not want black knight on e4) 22…b5 23. b3 f5 I was trying to keep the game as simple and slow as possible, but "parrot" wanted to open up more files for attack and maneuvers. Position looks drawish so far. 24. exf5 gxf5 Now black has isolated h pawn which isn't really a weakness, since it's hard to attack and flexible e5-f5 pawns. 25. Be3 for rook exchange 28. Bc5 (offering trade even though bishop is somewhat better than a knight here) 28…Rc8 does not work here because of 30. Ne3. 28… Ke6 29. Nxd6 Kxd6 30. Kf2 it's time to activate the king which is worth 4 points in the endgame. Now I had a feel that this should end up with a draw, which is good. 30… h5 - good idea to push and exchange isolated pawn 34. Kf2 Rh8 35. Kg2 not allowing 35… Rh2 39. Rxc7 Kxc7 Pawn and king endgame with white king closer to the action, but still a draw. 40. Ke3 DRAW I hope it was helpful and any reader learned something for themself! |















