Good morning all,
Now the large wooden Chess-Master Diamond with PM11 module bravely meets the small, nevertheless strong, Mephisto Europa A.
As I don't own the opening module (PM10), for variety sake I shall let the CMD play without 'best' mode for its very first moves (6 as White, 5 as Black); then I shall restore the 'best' selection for the rest of the game.
With close to 400 CElo points margin, the Morsch program should easily prevail. This did not happen in the first game, a long and boring one you can exempt yourself from watching: the middlegame is kept closed for about fifteen moves where pieces go back and forth with high odds for a draw per repetition. The Europa A program has nothing to prevent that, it would have been a nice achievement from the CMD to get half a point from this match. Unfortunately, it is happy with a slightly positive score, and denies the draw twice. Once the game opens, the Europa A sets a strong pressure onto the White king corner, the Diamond commits a positional error weakening a key square, and due to the famous horizon effect commits a tactical mistake in addition. Game over.
The second game is much shorter, with a Diamond blunder
as soon as the eighth move. A piece of cake for the Europa A.
[Event "The 64-cup"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2023.10.19"]
[Round "4-1"]
[White "VEB RFT Chess-Master Diamond + PM11 (lv 2)"]
[Black "Mephisto Europa A (lv a3)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1304"]
[BlackElo "1702"]
[EventDate "2023.09.26"]
[ECO "D02"]
[PlyCount "92"]
1.d4 {No book} 1...Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bd2 Nc6 {Out of book} 4.e3 Bg4 5.h3 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 e5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Qe2 Nc4 9.c3 Bc5 10.Qd3 O-O 11.Qc2 Nd6 12.Bd3 Re8 13.O-O Nfe4 14.b4 Bb6 15.Re1 Qh4 16.Rf1 Rad8 17.Be1 Qf6 18.Qb3 c6 19.Qc2 Nb5 20.Qb3 Nbd6 21.Qa4 Qe7 22.Qb3 Qf6 23.Qa4 Qe7 24.Qc2 Qf6 25.Qb3 {Qa4 would have drawned} 25...Nb5 26.Qc2 Nbd6 27.Qb3 {Qa4 would have drawned} 27...Nb5 28.Qb2 a6 29.Qb3 h6 30.Qb2 Nbd6 31.Qb3 Nb5 32.Qb2 Nbd6 33.Qc1 Rd7 34.Na3 Rde7 35.Rb1 Qg6 36.f3 $2 {weakens e3 square, threatened by the b6 Bishop with a potential royal fork.} 36...Nf5 $1 37.Nc4 $2 {wrong tentative to defend e3 and threaten b6 in the same move. Most probably, the outcome of captures is beyond CMD's horizon.} 37...dxc4 38.Bxe4 Rxe4 39.Bf2 Nxe3 $1 40.g3 Nxf1 41.Kxf1 Bxf2 42.fxe4 Bxg3 43.a4 Qf6+ 44.Qf4 Qxf4+ 45.Kg2 Qf2+ 46.Kh1 Qh2# 0-1
[Event "The 64-cup"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2023.10.19"]
[Round "4-1"]
[White "Mephisto Europa A (lv a3)"]
[Black "VEB RFT Chess-Master Diamond + PM11 (lv 2)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1702"]
[BlackElo "1304"]
[EventDate "2023.09.26"]
[ECO "A53"]
[PlyCount "43"]
1.c4 d6 {No book} 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 {Out of book} 3...c5 4.dxc5 dxc5 5.Qxd8+ Kxd8 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Bf4 Bf5 8.Rd1+ Nd4 $4 {ouch, that hurts! Pins itself...} 9.e3 {of course} 9...Bc2 10.Rd2 e5 11.Nxe5 Bg6 12.exd4 cxd4 13.Rxd4+ Kc8 14.g3 Bc5 15.Bh3+ Ng4 16.Bxg4+ f5 17.Rd5 Bxf2+ 18.Kxf2 fxg4 19.Rhd1 b6 20.Rd7 Bc2 21.Nc6 Bxd1 22.Rc7# 1-0
MfG,
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