Game 7 of 10
I think this game is the most impressive and is also the shortest game in the match at 53 moves.
It’s another win for TheKing and it’s pretty much one-sided from the start!
[Event "30/30 Rest 30 mins"]
[Round "7"]
[White "TheKing Normal"]
[Black "ChessGenius Android on Galaxy Tab A8"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 dxc4 6.Bxc4 Nd7 7.Nge2 Ne7 8.O-O Nb6 9.Bb3 Ned5 10.a4 Nb4 11.a5 Nc8 12.Be3 Be7 13.Ng3 Bd3 14.Qg4 Bxf1 15.Qxg7 Kd7 16.Rxf1 Qg8 17.Qh6 Qg6 18.Qh3 Kd8 19.Nh5 Kc7 20.Nf4 Qg8 21.Qf3 Kb8 22.Rc1 a6 23.Bd2 Qg7 24.Nce2 Rg8 25.Ng3 Qg4 26.Qe4 Qh4 27.Ngh5 Rh8 28.Rc3 Nd5 29.Rh3 Qg5 30.Rg3 Qh6 31.Qe2 Nxf4 32.Bxf4 Qf8 33.Nf6 Kc7 34.Qc2 Bxf6 35.exf6+ Kd8 36.d5 exd5 37.Bxd5 Qb4 38.Bc4 Nd6 39.Bxd6 Qe1+ 40.Bf1 Qe6 41.Qc5 Kc8 42.Re3 Qd5 43.Qb4 c5 44.Qg4+ Kd8 45.Qg7 Kd7 46.Re7+ Kc6 47.Qg4 Qe6 48.Rxe6 fxe6 49.Bg3 Kd7 50.Qg7+ Kc6 51.Qc7+ Kd5 52.Qd6+ Ke4 53.Bd3# 1-0
They played the Caro-Kann, Advance variation with TheKing(White) this time making a novelty move in the opening with 10.a4 (the theoretical move is 10.Ng3!):
The game continued 10…Nb4 11.a5 Nc8?! Run away and hide! Surely, 11…N6d5 would be positionally stronger?
TheKing is not without making inferior moves. Take the following position after move 22:
Here, TheKing with the white pieces is a pawn up and has two Bishops compared to Black’s Bishop and Knight. However, Black’s Knight on c8 is not doing much, and also Black’s Rooks are tied up. Here, TheKing played 23.Bd2?! But 23.d5 would have been much better and more in the style of TheKing’s dynamic play I would have thought. I guess TheKing was planning an attack on the Knight on b4.
Here is the position after TheKing’s 33rd move:
Black is up by a pawn but White’s position is much stronger! CG’s King on b8 doesn’t look safe but to make things worse it moved 33… Kc7?! White only needs to advance the Pawn on d4 and Black’s King is exposed! Well, TheKing did not make this move straight away, but it was only a matter of time before it did and CG suffered as a consequence. Here is the final position:
I did not expect to see a win like this, Black’s Rooks still on their original squares and Black’s King in the center checkmated!
In this game TheKing made 4 inaccuracies whilst CG made 2 mistakes and 10 inaccuracies.
Very good play by TheKing, very poor for CG in my opinion. It does look like CG on Android is still not scaling up well on faster hardware, and possibly not benefiting much or any from being a 64-bit program? Am I being too harsh? After all, running on Pentium PC it beat Kasparov with normal time controls. It’s certainly way stronger than me, so I’m not saying it isn’t good, it’s just that TheKing is so impressive.
Score now 6 – 1 to TheKing. This is looking very one sided!