Game 4/10
[Event "Active,Classic Book"]
[Round "4"]
[White "MCGP2024"]
[Black "Maia1900 6 ply"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E69"]
1.Nf3 g6 2.g3 Bg7 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.O-O O-O 5.c4 d6 6.d4 Nbd7 7.Nc3 {Out of book} 7...e5 8.e4 c6 9.h3 Re8 10.Re1 Qb6 11.b3 exd4 12.Na4 Qc7 13.Nxd4 Nc5 14.Nc3 Nfd7 15.b4 Ne6 16.Nxe6 Rxe6 17.Qb3 a5 18.Rb1 axb4 19.Qxb4 Qa5 20.Bd2 Qxb4 21.Rxb4 Nc5 22.Rbb1 Ra3 23.Nd1 Rxa2 24.Bc3 Bxc3 25.Nxc3 Rc2 26.Rec1 Rxc1+ 27.Rxc1 Kf8 28.Rd1 Ke7 29.h4 Rf6 30.f4 Be6 31.Bf1 Bg4 32.Rb1 Re6 33.Kf2 f5 34.exf5 Bxf5 35.Rb6 Kd7 36.Rb2 Kc7 37.Rd2 h5 38.Rd1 Bg4 39.Rd2 Bf5 40.Rd1 Ne4+ 41.Nxe4 Bxe4 42.Re1 Bf5 43.Re3 Rxe3 44.Kxe3 Kb6 45.Kd4 Ka5 46.Kc3 Kb6 47.Kd4 Ka5 48.Kc3 Kb6 49.Kd4 1/2-1/2
The King’s Indian, Fianchetto, Classical main line was played and the MCGP2024 was out of book on move 7.
The game was all level at move 16 with the following position and White to move:
Here the MCGP2024 needed to protect the attacked knight on c3 and played 17.Qb3. Maybe the idea is to advance the c4 pawn opening up the diagonal to the enemy King but it does hamper the Queen. A better developing move might have been 17.Bb2.
It is from this point that Black made less than ideal moves until the following position after the MCGP2024 had just moved 48. Kc3
Here the Maia bot was a pawn ahead and in a better position but made the poor move 48…Kb5?
This gave White the option of drawing by 3-fold repetition which it wisely did. A better move for Black would have been 48…b5 with chances of advancing his queen-side pawns. The Maia bot is obviously lacking some knowledge here and missed its chance.
Overall an interesting game and we must remember that the Maia bot is limited to 6 ply search unlike the MCGPro2024 that was often looking much further ahead. That being said, Maia does have all the knowledge from 12 million games, although these were from 1900 rated players.
Current score all level at 2 – 2