Game 5 of 10
Another win for TheKing!
They played the Four Knights, Belgrade Gambit and it looks like TheKing’s Master book is better than the one in CG. I’ve noticed in this match that CG is out of book far sooner than TheKing, although as we know book opening size is not always indicative of playing strength, but in these games it has certainly helped with TheKing’s clock!
[Event "30/30 Rest 30 mins"]
[Round "5"]
[White "TheKing Normal"]
[Black "ChessGenius Android on Galaxy Tab A8"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nd5 Nxe4 6.Bc4 Be7 7.O-O O-O 8.Re1 Nf6 9.Nxe7+ Nxe7 10.Qxd4 Nc6 11.Qh4 h6 12.Nd4 Nxd4 13.Qxd4 d5 14.Bd3 c6 15.b3 Re8 16.Rxe8+ Nxe8 17.Bf4 Be6 18.Be5 Qb6 19.Qh4 Qc5 20.Re1 a5 21.c3 Qa3 22.Bb1 a4 23.b4 Qb2 24.Qd4 Rc8 25.Qd3 Kf8 26.Qe3 Kg8 27.Bd4 b6 28.Qd3 g6 29.Qe3 c5 30.bxc5 bxc5 31.Bxc5 Kh7 32.Bd4 Qb8 33.Bd3 Qc7 34.Be5 Qe7 35.Qd4 Ra8 36.Qb4 Qxb4 37.cxb4 Ra7 38.Bb5 Ng7 39.a3 Nf5 40.Rd1 h5 41.h3 g5 42.Rc1 Bd7 43.Bd3 Kh6 44.b5 Rb7 45.Rc5 Be6 46.Bc2 d4 47.Bd3 Ne7 48.Bf6 Nd5 49.Bxd4 Nf4 50.Be4 Rd7 51.Be3 Bd5 52.Bxf4 Bxe4 53.Rxg5 Kh7 54.Rxh5+ Kg6 55.Rh4 Kf5 56.b6 Rb7 57.Bc7 Bc2 58.Rh6 Bb3 59.g4+ Kg5 60.Rc6 f6 61.f4+ Kg6 62.g5 Kh7 63.Rxf6 Kg8 64.f5 Bc2 65.Rg6+ Kh7 66.Be5 Bxf5 67.Rh6+ Kg8 68.g6 Bxg6 69.Rxg6+ Kf8 70.Kf2 Ke8 71.Bc7 Kf7 72.Rg1 Ke6 73.h4 Kd5 74.h5 Kc4 75.h6 Rxb6 76.Bxb6 Kb5 77.Rc1 Kxb6 78.h7 Kb7 79.h8=Q Kb6 80.Qb8+ Ka5 81.Qa7+ Kb5 82.Rc5# 1-0
The first position where CG made a poor move is in the opening. After making a novelty with 10… Nc6 (theoretical move is 10…d5!) play followed 11.Qh4 h6? (See diagram)
This is not good as it weakens the King’s line of defense. Better would have been to block off White’s Bishop on c4 with 11…d5
Maybe if it had looked far enough ahead TheKing may have seen the following attacking sequence: 12.Bxh6 d5 13.Qg5 threatening mate on the next move, 13…Ne8 the only sensible option, 14.Bxd5 gaining a pawn, 14…Qf6 15.Bxc6 bxc6 16.Qxf6 Nxf6 17.Bg5 and White is in a good position.
However, this is academic because it made the move 12.Nd4.
An interesting position occurred after TheKing's move 22.Bb1 giving this position:
Here, CG replied 22…a4?! To which TheKing moved 23.b4 and Black’s Queen is now almost hemmed in with only one slow escape route! This is something I noticed that TheKing was able to often achieve against CG on the Millennium unit, so an indication perhaps that CG for Android is not so different which I suspected.
Play continued with TheKing outplaying CG. Here is another example of a bad choice of moves for CG:
In this position CG moved 36…Qxb4?! To which White replied 37.cxb4 Now White has a passed pawn. After this, TheKing’s play was strong enough to sail home to victory. Not always perfect, but of course it’s not as powerful as DH15 on my PC!
In this game TheKing made 2 mistakes and 3 inaccuracies whilst CG made 2 mistakes and 12 inaccuracies.
So far, TheKing has 3 wins and 2 draws, still time for CG to win.