I’ve finally completed a 10 game match I’ve been wanting to do for some time between Millennium’s TheKing element set to play with it’s “Normal” personality and TheKing with the “King of Alabama” personality settings created by Spacious Mind. I know “King of Alabama” won in the Aegon 1997 Revisited tournament (played in 2019, how time flies!) achieving an ELO of 2761. This is extraordinary in my opinion, and all participants did well.

The rating achieved in the Aegon 1997 Revisited tournament was at a time control of 40/40, so an average of 1 minute per move. I have been interested to see how well TheKing element’s Normal personality would perform against King of Alabama at a time control of 40/120. Would this longer time control yield more draws or would one machine dominate?

Here are the King of Alabama settings:

PLAYER
PAWN:81
KNIGHT:86
BISHOP:86
ROOK:89
QUEEN:91
SPACE:91
MOBILITY:98
KING SAFETY:81
PASS PAWN:121
PAWN WEAK:81

OPPONENT
PAWN:81
KNIGHT:86
BISHOP:86
ROOK:89
QUEEN:91
SPACE:91
MOBILITY:98
KING SAFETY:121
PASS PAWN:81
PAWN WEAK:81

SELECTIVITY:14

For TheKing “Normal”, all settings are 100% except SELECTIVITY which is Auto.
I left Contempt and Randomness at their defaults for both personalities.

I wasn’t sure of The King Element’s actual ELO rating at a time control of 40/120 so looked it up on https://www.schachcomputer.info/html...elo_liste.html
Here, tournaments are conducted at 40/120 and TheKing has a rating of 2594 after 74 games. I’m guessing this was with it’s “Normal” personality.

Game 1 of 10


The Sicilian, Taimanov/Sveshnikov opening was played.

HIARCS15 Analysis:
White: 1 mistake and 7 inaccuracies.
Black: 2 blunders and 9 inaccuracies.

The first dubious move made from the opening was by King of Alabama(KingA). In the following position King Normal (KingN) had just moved 10.Na3:

Here, KingA moved 10…d5?! This loses the pawn to White’s Knight on c3 and Black’s position quickly deteriorates. Strange to give away a Pawn especially as there did not seem to be any positional advantage.

Neither personality was perfect but in this game, KingN came out of the opening a Pawn up and more or less maintained its advantage all the way. The blunders made by KingA were in the end-game where it was going to lose anyway so I acedemic at this point.

Out of interest, at move 69 KingA announced it would be mated in 12, KingN announced mate in 13, but it actually took 17 ply moves.

So the first game goes to KingN.

I will post the next game shortly.