Game 4 of 10
[Event "Battle of the Kings"]
[Site "?"]
[Round "4"]
[White "TheKing Alabama"]
[Black "TheKing Normal"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A29"]
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Bc5 5.Nxe5 Nxe5 6.d4 Qe7 7.Bg2 Nxc4 8.dxc5
Qxc5 9.b3 Ne5 10.Bd2 d5 11.O-O c6 12.Rc1 Qe7 13.Bg5 Bf5 14.Re1 Rd8 15.Bxf6 gxf6
16.Qd4 O-O 17.Qxa7 Rfe8 18.h3 d4 19.Na4 Qb4 20.Red1 d3 21.exd3 Nxd3 22.Rc4 Qe7
23.Qb6 Ne5 24.Rxd8 Rxd8 25.Rf4 Be6 26.Qa7 Rd1+ 27.Kh2 Nd3 28.Re4 Ne5 29.Nc3 Rd2
30.Rf4 Ng6 31.Qe3 Nxf4 32.Qxd2 Nxg2 33.Kxg2 Bf5 34.f3 Bg6 35.Ne2 Qe5 36.h4 Kg7
37.g4 h6 38.Nf4 Qe7 39.Nh3 Qc5 40.Nf2 Qd5 41.Qe3 Qd6 42.Qb6 Qd7 43.h5 Bb1 44.a3
f5 45.Qb4 f6 46.Qc3 Qe6 47.Qb2 Qe1 48.b4 b5 49.Qd4 Qe6 50.Qa7+ Qf7 51.Qc5 Qe6
52.Qc1 Ba2 53.gxf5 Qxf5 54.Ng4 Qg5 55.Qxc6 Bf7 56.Kf2 Qd2+ 57.Kg3 Qe1+ 58.Kf4
Qd2+ 59.Ke4 Qg5 60.Ne3 Qe5+ 61.Kd3 Bxh5 62.Qd7+ Kf8 63.f4 Bg6+ 64.f5 Be8 65.Qd5
Qa1 66.Qd6+ Kg7 67.Qc7+ Bf7 68.Ke4 Qxa3 69.Qa5 Qa4 70.Qxa4 bxa4 71.b5 Be8 72.b6
Bc6+ 73.Kd4 h5 74.Kc5 Bb7 75.Kb4 Kh6 76.Kxa4 h4 77.Kb5 Kg5 78.Kc5 h3 79.Nf1
Kxf5 80.Kd6 Kg4 81.Ke6 f5 82.Ke5 Ba6 83.Kf6 f4 84.Ke5 f3 85.Kd4 Kf4 86.Kc3 f2
87.Kb4 Kf3 88.Ka5 Bb7 89.Kb5 Kg2 90.Ne3+ Kg1 91.Kb4 h2 92.Ng4 h1=Q 93.Nxf2 Kxf2
94.Kc3 Qa1+ 95.Kc4 Qa4+ 96.Kc5 Qf4 97.Kb5 Qd4 98.Ka5 Qc3+ 99.Kb5 Bc6+ 100.Ka6
Qa1# 0-1
The English, Bremen was played.
HIARCS15 Analysis:
White: 2 blunders, 2 mistakes and 5 inaccuracies.
Black: 2 inaccuracies.
In this game there was the usual fractional evaluation swings from one side to the other until the end game where KingA was totally outplayed.
Here is the position after Black moved his Queen 69…Qa4:
An interesting position and one in which White needs to be very careful! Unfortunately, KingA makes the blunder with the move 70.Qxa4? White cannot now stop Black from Queening with passed pawns on both sides of the board. A couple of moves on and KingA’s evaluation is -0.25 looking 06|15 (6 moves brute force and 15 moves selective) ahead. KingN’s evaluation is more accurate at 1.49 with lookahead of 12|13 (12 moves brute force, 13 selective). In fact, it’s my strong belief that KingN’s more brute force approach in this end game has been more beneficial. KingA’s more selective search has maybe missed its nuances.
Current score 3 – 1 to KingN.