Die little chess partner, die!

Yes I hate chess programs. Deeply. So I hardly ever play them. However, today I woke up and said to myself "this shall be the day when I finally defeat Little chess partner in hard difficulty" and so I did. I know for some of you it's an easy thing to do, but comps seem to get me all the time.

It took me 98 moves and countless amounts of time, and it's not even a nice looking game (when is it nice to watch computers play anyway...?) But I'm still happy with myself. Any comments will be apreciated.

Nice opening and middlegame play. I also have been playing LCP on "Hard" and posting some of my results. There are some great tactical shots all over the place in the middlegame where you broke down the computer's defense rather handily.

However, I don't understand why you played 86. Qd7+? especially after you followed it up with the comment "duh"? If you saw all those tactics in the middle game, couldn't you have seen that he was just going to block with his Rook and you lose your Queen?

I hope you're not one of those players who enjoys taking all of Black's pieces before delivering the final blow =/

That aside though, great game. I learned a lot by watching the opening strategy and middlegame tactics.

P.S. I tried experimenting with 3. c4 in the Scandinavian/Center Counter against the computer, and got smashed. I was thinking I could gain some space with c4 before playing Nc3 and then d4 for some nice central control. But now I see why people like 3. Nc3 better.

good game...but why not just 24.Qxd5 Rxd5 25.Nxb2?

Um....well, I like taking as many pieces as possible before finishing the game...makes it easier to mate, right?

Why not Just take the light squared bishop after move 14...Bd5?

oh that's a no-no...cause if that happens then 15...Bxh2+ followed by 16...Rxd5

In an OTB game (1 hour for 30 moves then +15 minutes to finish) I sacrificed my queen for my opponents bishop to get rid of any silly tactics etc. he may have come up with, and so that he couldn't come up with any defence. (All I had to do was promote my second pawn.)

hey omi..  how  u?///

All I can say is...

WOW.

nice (92 is a lot of moves. I got bored of playing through the game, so i skipped to the end, and laughed for a while at the final position.)

Thanx for your replies. And yes, the queen move in the endgame was a dumb blunder. How couldn't I see it after geting through all that terrible middlegame? well, I was just tired, relaxed and overconfident. The dumbest part of loosing the queen like that is that I spent several moves to make sure I could block the rook from my crowning square with the knight, to avoid the rook from taking my new queen.. and then I just gave it away.

And Cerebral Assasin, you're right. Somehow at the moment I thought that if 24.Qxd5 then Qxa1 25.Rxa1? Rxd5 and I lost the exchange... when in truth if 24.....Qxa1 simply 25. Qc5+ wins the black queen.

I'll have to do some more tactics trainer I guess. Go humans!

very interesting sub-question you raised here!! ie.  can the computer  "die"  does it have a "soul"  if a human brain is placed in a machine, and controls the machine as a body, is the machine with a human brain "alive" can it die??? does it have a "soul" ??  good game beating little friend, i see you live in argentina...have you been following Governor Sanford of South Carolina and his mistress in Buenos Aires????...Please check my public profile as much as possible i'd like 1500-2000 hits, because i have low self esteem to be honest...hate to appear to be begging....just thinking outloud here, well nap time i'm  "old school"....if you get my gist.....

The endgame queen move wasn't that bad, after 87...Ka8 you could have played 88. Nc7+ Kb8 89. Qd8#

Omicron wrote:

24. Qc7+ was probably stronger

Agreed.  But good game anyways - thanks for sharing!

Agreed, again.  The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent, not to make them resign.

This makes a good point - if all of your opponents were machines, with no emotions or feelings, wouldn't it be pointless to grab pieces in an attempt to get a resignation?  The machine will keep on playing its best game until either you win, it wins, or the game is stalemated, as almost happened on move 72.  Good thing you saw it before you moved...

Seriously people, end the game if you have a chance.  Don't assume that your opponent will just give up, no matter how hopeless their position looks.  Danger lurks in even the most secure-looking of positions.

I will certainly go for the quickest possible win against people. But hate drives us to do irrational things, such as taking all the material on the board just to fuel our own mind with the feeling of superiority over the artificial oponent. "Take that you heartless piece of plastic!, calculate your mating chances with your lonely King.... come on DANCE King,  DANCE!"

No... now for real. I played a crap endgame, I would have loved to mate the comp faster, but spent all my thinking energies in earlier stages of the game.

But seriously Kissinger... how can you post that? now I'll have to think a way to justify my topic name.

 You must've HATED cheater_1's rise...

I think you are thinking too hard. This actually would get into religion since no one knows if "souls" exists.