In these times it seemed appropriate to bring my Saitek Corona into the arena
. I think it is a B-version, so no good idea of the active elo. And because I am testing the Horvath feature settings, it now takes part in this.
I also tested my Krypton Comet against the Excalibur Einstein Chess Wizard. The Einstein runs the same program as that of the Alexandra, but at 4 MHz instead of 5 MHz. On that match I will report later. And of course the games between the Krypton Challenge and the Rebell 5.0 will be replayed with default settings. Sorry for the unlogical order of this all...
Here the first game, one with the default settings and one with the same opening and the Tibono settings. In a (for me) unknown variation of the Grünfeld both were released out of book in a tricky position. With the default settings, white won two pawns, but then neglected his king safety and got heavily punished for that.
With the Tibono settings white played a different first calculated move, got in trouble soon, and in an attempt to save material it gave black the chance for an immediately decisive attack.
These game are played at the 30 minutes/game level.
[Event "Testmatch Horvath Features"]
[Site "Eindhoven"]
[Date "2020.06.04"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Krypton Comet, Default features"]
[Black "Saitek Corona"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D93"]
[Annotator "Wiselius,Paul"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2020.??.??"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 {
* last bookmove} Qa5 {* last bookmove} 8. Qa4 Qxc5 9. Rd1 Ne4 {
? looses material} 10. Nxd5 Na6 11. Qc2 (11. Ne5 {
! brings the black queen in trouble} Kh8 (11... f6 12. Nd3 Qc6 13. Nxe7+) 12.
f3 g5 (12... Nf6 13. b4) 13. fxe4 gxf4 14. exf4) 11... e6 {also not the best}
12. Qxe4 exd5 13. cxd5 Qa5+ 14. Rd2 Qxa2 15. Be5 Bf5 16. Qd4 (16. Qc4) 16...
Qb1+ 17. Rd1 Bxe5 18. Nxe5 Qa2 19. d6 {? a risky choice. White must play his
bishop, so he can bring his king in safety.} Qa5+ 20. Qc3 Nb4 21. Rc1 {
? calls disaster upon itself. This time white really should play 21... Bc4 or
d7.} Rac8 22. Nc4 Qc5 23. Na3 ({better} 23. Qd2 b5 24. d7 Rcd8 25. Qd6) 23...
Qd5 24. Qd2 Nd3+ 25. Bxd3 Qxg2 26. Rxc8 Qxh1+ 27. Bf1 Rxc8 28. Ke2 ({better}
28. d7) 28... Bg4+ 29. f3 Qxh2+ 30. Ke1 Qg3+ 31. Qf2 Rc1+ 32. Ke2 Bxf3+ 33.
Qxf3 Re1+ 34. Kd2 Qxf3 35. Kxe1 Qxe3+ {of course I could have resigned for
white now, but I thought I'd wait until black promoted a pawn. That took more
moves then I expected...} 36. Kd1 Qd4+ 37. Ke1 Qb4+ 38. Kd1 Qxd6+ 39. Kc2 Qc6+
40. Kd2 Qf6 41. Bc4 Qxb2+ 42. Nc2 Qe5 43. Ne3 h5 44. Bd5 h4 45. Bf3 h3 46. Kd3
h2 47. Be4 Qxe4+ 48. Kxe4 b5 49. Ke5 f5 50. Nxf5 gxf5 51. Kxf5 a5 52. Ke4 b4
53. Kd5 b3 54. Kc4 b2 55. Kd5 b1=Q {and resigned for white} 0-1
[Event "Testmatch Horvath Features"]
[Site "Eindhoven"]
[Date "2020.06.04"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Krypton Comet, Tibono features"]
[Black "Saitek Corona"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D93"]
[Annotator "Wiselius,Paul"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2020.??.??"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 {
* last bookmove} Qa5 {* last bookmove} 8. Bxb8 Rxb8 9. Qa4 Qxc5 10. cxd5 Nxd5
11. Nxd5 Qxd5 12. Rd1 Qc5 13. b3 {
? this already means definitive loss of the game.} Bc3+ 14. Nd2 Bf5 15. Qc4 Qa5
16. e4 Rfd8 17. b4 Bxb4 18. exf5 Bxd2+ 19. Ke2 Qe5+ 20. Kf3 Rd4 21. Qxd4 Qxd4
22. fxg6 fxg6 23. Rxd2 Qxd2 24. Bc4+ Kh8 25. Bb3 Rf8+ 26. Kg3 Rxf2 27. Bd1
Rxg2+ 28. Kh3 Qxa2 29. Bb3 Qf2 30. Bd5 g5 31. Bxg2 Qh4# 0-1
NB: I still analyse games with Fritz 5.32. As a doublecheck I did it this time also with the analyze tool of Lichess.org. And it appeared that specially in the phase right after bookend of this game, Fritz 5.32 missed some vital aspects in the game, which of course is not really surprising...