Next Komodo vs GM match.

[lkaufman]

Stockfish 130118 find 42...Ke5 suboptimal (still enough to win) it prefers Kd5 though. Btw SF consulted 6-men syzygy from NVMe SSD. Maybe new motherboard support NVMe SSD Larry?

Since Komodo shows a mate score for 42...Ke5, how is it suboptimal? Maybe there is a shorter mate, but Syzygy doesn't care about that.

[JJJ]

Seems I m right again this time :p

[lkaufman]

Seems I m right again this time :p

Yes, although it certainly looked like Komodo would lose game 2. This makes 21 straight games without a loss giving two pawns to GMs. Maybe the streak will end tomorrow. I wonder what Kasparov would say, since he introduced the two pawn handicap in a match with a British tycoon who is now an FM. But Kasparov always gave the "a" pawn as one of them, so more like 1 1/2 pawn handicap.

[Nordlandia]

Seems I m right again this time :p

Yes, although it certainly looked like Komodo would lose game 2. This makes 21 straight games without a loss giving two pawns to GMs. Maybe the streak will end tomorrow. I wonder what Kasparov would say, since he introduced the two pawn handicap in a match with a British tycoon who is now an FM. But Kasparov always gave the "a" pawn as one of them, so more like 1 1/2 pawn handicap.

Maybe it's appropriate time to enhance from 2 pawns to 2.5 pawns for GM opponents?

[lkaufman]

Seems I m right again this time :p

Yes, although it certainly looked like Komodo would lose game 2. This makes 21 straight games without a loss giving two pawns to GMs. Maybe the streak will end tomorrow. I wonder what Kasparov would say, since he introduced the two pawn handicap in a match with a British tycoon who is now an FM. But Kasparov always gave the "a" pawn as one of them, so more like 1 1/2 pawn handicap.

Maybe it's appropriate time to enhance from 2 pawns to 2.5 pawns for GM opponents?

It's already a bit more than jus 2 pawns, since one of them in this match is always the "g" pawn, one of the two worst pawns to give up, and we don't allow taking off rook pawns. I suppose 2.5 pawns could mean human gets white every game and g7 or f7 plus another pawn of his choice (but not both) every game, no repeats allowed. Exchange and a pawn, queen for two minors, knight for pawn are other options we have tried. Anyway let's see what happens today first.

[Uri Blass]

Seems I m right again this time :p

Yes, although it certainly looked like Komodo would lose game 2. This makes 21 straight games without a loss giving two pawns to GMs. Maybe the streak will end tomorrow. I wonder what Kasparov would say, since he introduced the two pawn handicap in a match with a British tycoon who is now an FM. But Kasparov always gave the "a" pawn as one of them, so more like 1 1/2 pawn handicap.

Maybe it's appropriate time to enhance from 2 pawns to 2.5 pawns for GM opponents?

I think that GM's should play better not to lose in these conditions.

I expected a GM to play better rook endgames and to know how to defend against a passed pawn in rook endgame and the plan to generate a passed pawn after a3 is clear.

c3 is the place for the king when the king can hide from checks and not for the pawn.

[Nordlandia]

Analysis by Komodo 11.2.2 64-bit:

1.e4 d5 2.e5 Bf5 3.d4 e6
White is clearly better: +- (2.44 --) Depth: 24 00:00:11 56979kN
(16.01.2018)

[d]1nbqkbnr/1ppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1RBQKBNR w Kk - 0 1

[lkaufman]

Game 3 was complicated, Izoria kept his advantage for 18 moves, then got short of time and started to make mistakes.


[pgn][Event "Rapid 45m + 15s"]
[Site "Bethesda"]
[Date "2018.01.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Komodo 2000.00 64-bit"]
[Black "Izoria, Zviad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "Kaufman,Larry"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PP1PPP1P/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[TimeControl "2100+8"]

{6144MB, Book2016.ctg, DESKTOP-16c} 1. d4 {-0.67/27 30} d5 {59} 2. Nc3 {
-0.76/31 92} c6 {40} 3. Bf4 {-0.76/30 85} Bf5 {25} 4. e3 {-0.60/28 29} e6 {23}
5. Bd3 {-0.55/28 21} Bxd3 {43} 6. Qxd3 {-0.77/29 0} Nf6 {16} 7. Nf3 {-0.78/29
68} Nbd7 {25} 8. O-O-O {-0.80/28 13} Qa5 {433} 9. Kb1 {-0.46/30 53} b5 {233}
10. Ne5 {-0.62/36 0} Nxe5 {48} 11. dxe5 {-0.58/32 83} Nd7 {45} 12. e4 {-0.66/
30 0} b4 {386} 13. Ne2 {-0.70/29 55} Qb6 {246} 14. Rc1 {-0.70/36 0} Bc5 {70}
15. Qg3 {-0.61/31 44} O-O {493} 16. Bh6 {-0.65/39 0} g6 {18} 17. h4 {-0.62/33
32} b3 {222} 18. axb3 {-0.64/38 0} Rfb8 {52} 19. Rc3 {-0.68/35 0} Bd4 {265} 20.
Nxd4 {-0.18/31 27} Qxd4 {15} 21. f3 {-0.20/32 10} dxe4 {461} 22. h5 {-0.47/41 0
} Nxe5 {49} 23. Qh4 {-0.14/36 57} Rd8 {241} 24. fxe4 {0.28/35 39} f5 {43} 25.
Bg5 {0.23/36 16} Rd7 {49} 26. Bf6 {0.64/33 28} Rf8 {51} 27. hxg6 {1.54/34 47}
Nxg6 {27} 28. Bxd4 {1.69/35 0} Nxh4 {19} 29. Bc5 {1.81/36 43} Ng6 {30} 30. Bxf8
{2.11/35 37} Kxf8 {16} 31. Rxc6 {2.64/30 22} f4 {43} 32. Rxe6 {2.73/32 0} Kg7 {
22} 33. Ra6 {2.93/31 3} f3 {39} 34. Rf1 {3.23/32 0} Rf7 {29} 35. Ra5 {3.60/33
50} 1-0[/pgn]

[lkaufman]

Analysis by Komodo 11.2.2 64-bit:

1.e4 d5 2.e5 Bf5 3.d4 e6
White is clearly better: +- (2.44 --) Depth: 24 00:00:11 56979kN
(16.01.2018)

[d]1nbqkbnr/1ppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1RBQKBNR w Kk - 0 1

Yes, exchange plus pawn plus move like that is a fair option. We may try it.

[mjlef]

Stockfish 130118 find 42...Ke5 suboptimal (still enough to win) it prefers Kd5 though. Btw SF consulted 6-men syzygy from NVMe SSD. Maybe new motherboard support NVMe SSD Larry?

Since Komodo shows a mate score for 42...Ke5, how is it suboptimal? Maybe there is a shorter mate, but Syzygy doesn't care about that.

I am pretty sure we only have 5 piece Syzygy on this machine.