planned weekly komodo vs human series on chess.com

[Chessqueen]

Ray's near-win. He was three pawns up after 31 moves.

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Handicap match"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "August 21, 2019"] [Round "6 (f7 + g7 odds)"] [White "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"] [Black "PlayKomodo"] [Result "0-1"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "rnbqkbnr/ppppp2p/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"] [TimeControl "600+5"] 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. Bc4 c5 5. dxc5 dxc5 6. Qxd8+ Kxd8 7. Be3 Ng4 8. Bxc5 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Ne5 10. O-O-O+ Kc7 11. Bd4 Nbc6 12. Be2 Rf8 13. f3 Be6 14. Kb2 Nc4+ 15. Bxc4 Bxc4 16. Bf2 e5 17. Nh3 Be6 18. Ng5 Bg8 19. Bg3 Rae8 20. Nh3 Kc8 21. Nf2 Na5 22. Ng4 Nc4+ 23. Kc1 h5 24. Nh6 Kc7 25. Nxg8 Rxg8 26. Rd5 b6 27. Rhd1 h4 28. Bxh4 Rxg2 29. Bg3 Kc6 30. Rd8 Rxd8 31. Rxd8 b5 32. Rd5 Ne3 33. Rd3 Rxc2+ 34. Kb1 Re2 35. h4 Nc4 36. h5 Rg2 37. Bh4 Rh2 38. Bf6 Rxh5 39. Rd5 Rh1+ 40. Kc2 Ne3+ 0-1[/pgn]

Are these games on Youtube ?

[lkaufman]

Ray's near-win. He was three pawns up after 31 moves.

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Handicap match"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "August 21, 2019"] [Round "6 (f7 + g7 odds)"] [White "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"] [Black "PlayKomodo"] [Result "0-1"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "rnbqkbnr/ppppp2p/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"] [TimeControl "600+5"] 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. Bc4 c5 5. dxc5 dxc5 6. Qxd8+ Kxd8 7. Be3 Ng4 8. Bxc5 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Ne5 10. O-O-O+ Kc7 11. Bd4 Nbc6 12. Be2 Rf8 13. f3 Be6 14. Kb2 Nc4+ 15. Bxc4 Bxc4 16. Bf2 e5 17. Nh3 Be6 18. Ng5 Bg8 19. Bg3 Rae8 20. Nh3 Kc8 21. Nf2 Na5 22. Ng4 Nc4+ 23. Kc1 h5 24. Nh6 Kc7 25. Nxg8 Rxg8 26. Rd5 b6 27. Rhd1 h4 28. Bxh4 Rxg2 29. Bg3 Kc6 30. Rd8 Rxd8 31. Rxd8 b5 32. Rd5 Ne3 33. Rd3 Rxc2+ 34. Kb1 Re2 35. h4 Nc4 36. h5 Rg2 37. Bh4 Rh2 38. Bf6 Rxh5 39. Rd5 Rh1+ 40. Kc2 Ne3+ 0-1[/pgn]

Are these games on Youtube ?

No, just on chess.com archive. I'm thinking maybe we need to go to 15' + 10" for future matches, the time limit used in the latest World Rapid Chess Championship, so that if the time ever comes that we can draw or even beat GMs at knight odds, we can say that it was at Rapid with no question of the term or we could call it the World Rapid time-limit. I'm sure Ray would have done better at that time limit.

[Henk]

I miss the yearly Lyudmil Tsvetkov-Stockfish match. For he was telling us Stockfish played worse than himself.

Might be he quit with computer chess. I don't know.

So now I can't compare strength of current engines against humans.

[lkaufman]

I miss the yearly Lyudmil Tsvetkov-Stockfish match. For he was telling us Stockfish played worse than himself.

Might be he quit with computer chess. I don't know.

So now I can't compare strength of current engines against humans.

If we continue this weekly series, it will be very easy to compare engines with humans. I think I'll play against Komodo myself this coming Wednesday. While I'm no longer as strong a player as my son, I may know more about how to play against engines.