February 2018 Chess Games

Games shown here were played against my chess applet, the Homeostatic Chess Player, a computer program I wrote in the first year of this century.

Irregular Opening

Homeostatic Chess Player vs. Rick on Intel CORE i7 Dell Inspiron laptop, February 5-8, 2018. Minimal look-ahead set to six tempi. The computer is playing black.

	White	Black
1.	e3	Nf6    A conservative opening move.
2.	Nc3	c5     The white knight blocks his bishop pawn, but the knight will be traded off later allowing the pawn to move.
3.	Nf3	Nc6
4.	d4	e6
5.	Bd2	a6

Position after move 5.

6.	Bd3	Qc7    Black has a fairly free position.
7.	dxc5	Bxc5
8.	Ne4	Nxe4   Black exchanges knights winning a tempo.
9.	Bxe4	d5
10.	Bd3	O-O    White has posed little opening difficulty for black.

Position after move 10.

11.	c3	e5     Black must advance in the center to avoid ceding the initiative to white.
12.	b4	Bd6
13.	e4	dxe4
14.	Bxe4	h6
15.	Qb1	Be6

Position after move 15.

16.	Bf5	Qe7    The position is fairly equal.
17.	Bh7+	Kh8    Trading off white's active bishop would not help him.
18.	Bc2	f5!    Black takes the initiative by taking charge of the center.
19.	Bb3	Bd7    Black preserves his white squared bishop.
20.	Kf1?	e4     Castling would have been better for white.

Position after move 20.

21.	Ng1	Ne5
22.	a4	a5     Black takes care of the queen side before attacking through the center.
23.	b5	Bc5
24.	Be3	Ng4
25.	Qc1	Ra8c8

Position after move 25.

26.	Bd5	b6     Removing all possibility of queen side couterplay.
27.	Bb3	Bxe3
28.	fxe3	Qc5    Black wins material.
29.	Ne2	Nxe3+
30.	Ke1	Nxg2+

Position after move 30.

31.	Kf1	Ne3+   Thirty more moves of mopping up.
32.	Ke1	Nd5
33.	Qd1	Be6
34.	Qd4	Bf7
35.	Rg1	Nf6
36.	Bxf7	Rxf7
37.	Qxc5	Rxc5
38.	Rd1	Rd7
39.	Rxd7	Nxd7
40.	Kd2	Kh7
41.	Kc2	g5
42.	Nd4	f4
43.	Nc6	Ne5
44.	Nxe5	Rxe5
45.	Rd1	Re6
46.	Kb2	e3
47.	Rd7+	Kg6
48.	Rd1	e2
49.	Re1	f3
50.	h4	gxh4
51.	Rg1+	Kf5
52.	Rg7	e1=Q
53.	Rf7+	Rf6
54.	Rd7	f2
55.	Rd5+	Ke6
56.	Rd8	Qe2+
57.	Kb3	Qf3
58.	Rd1	Qxd1+
59.	Kc4	Qe2+ White resigns

	White	Black
1.	e4	e5
2.	Qh5	d6
3.	Bc4	Qe7
4.	Nc3	Nf6
5.	Qg5	h6
6.	Qe3	c6
7.	Ng1e2	Be6
8.	b3	Nb8d7
9.	Bb2	b5
10.	Bxe6	fxe6
11.	a4	b4
12.	Na2	d5
13.	exd5	e6xd5
14.	O-O	d4
15.	Qh3	Qf7
16.	f4	c5
17.	Ra1e1	Bd6
18.	Ng3	O-O
19.	fxe5	Bxe5
20.	Ne4	Qd5
21.	Nxf6+	Nxf6
22.	Qf3	Qd6
23.	g3	Ra8e8
24.	Qd3	Ng4
25.	Qc4+	Kh8
26.	Rf7	Bxg3
27.	Rxe8	Rxe8
28.	h3	Ne5
29.	Qb5	Rb8
30.	Rb7	Nf3+
31.	Kh1	Rf8
32.	Rxa7	Nxd2
33.	Qb7	Qe5
34.	Nc1	Qe1+ White resigns

White Black 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nd7 4. Nc3 Ng8f6 5. Bb5 c6 6. Bc4 Be7 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Ng5 O-O 9. Be3 h6 10. Nxf7 Rxf7 11. a3 Nc5

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