Game 5/10
[Event "Active,Classic Book"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Maia1900 6 ply"]
[Black "MCGP2024"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.g4 Be4 5.f3 Bg6 6.h4 h5 7.g5 Nd7{Out of book} 8.e6 fxe6 9.Bd3 Bf5 10.Ne2 Qa5+ 11.c3 Bxd3 12.Qxd3 e5 13.Qg6+ Kd8 14.dxe5 Nxe5 15.Qf5 Nd7 16.Nf4 e5 17.Ne6+ Ke7 18.b4 Qb6 19.Nc5 Nxc5 20.bxc5 Qc7 21.Ba3 Re8 22.Nd2 Qd7 23.Qd3 Kd8 24.O-O-O Qf7 25.c4 d4 26.Ne4 Qf4+ 27.Kb1 Re7 28.Nd6 Rf7 29.Nxf7+ Qxf7 30.Rhe1 Qe7 31.f4 Kc7 32.Rxe5 Qd7 33.Qxd4 Qxd4 34.Rxd4 Ne7 35.f5 g6 36.f6 Nf5 37.Rf4 Kd8 38.Rexf5 gxf5 39.Rxf5 Rg8 40.Re5 Kd7 41.Kc2 Rg6 42.Kd3 Rg8 43.Ke4 a6 44.Kf5 b5 45.cxb5 axb5 46.g6 1-0
The Caro-Kann, Advance variation was played until move 7 when Maia played a dubious move. Here is the position after Black moved 6…h5
Here White really should have developed some pieces such as 7.Ne2 but instead moved 7. g5?!
We now have a repeat of game 3 and Black played the same move as before 7…Nd7 but needed to oppose White’s King Pawn to prevent it moving to e6.
Maia did indeed move 8.e6! Now in the same way as game 3 crushed the MCGPro2024 which resigned. It will be interesting to see what may happen in the next match when I set the MCGPro2024 to the modern (HIARCS) book.
Current score 3 – 2 to the Maia bot.