October Chess Game

The game shown here was played against my chess applet, the Homeostatic Chess Player, a computer program I wrote in the first year of this century. Humans are not allowed to look at books during a tournament, and neither should computers. There is no book built into the Homeostatic Chess Player, it invents all its openings.

Sicilian Defense

I played white and the computer played black.

	White	Black
1.	e4	c5
2.	Nf3	Nc6
3.	d4	cxd4
4.	Nxd4	Nf6
5.	Nc3	Qa5     Black's queen move takes us out of the opening book.

Position after move 5.

6.	Nb3	Qe5
7.	f4	Qe6     White must be bold here. Less agressive moves are weaker.
8.	e5	b6      Too passive for black, who must immediately challenge white's pawn center.
9.	Be2	Ng8
10.	Be3	Rb8     White now has a definite advantage in space.

Position after move 10.

11.	Qd2	f6
12.	O-O-O	fxe5    White sacrifices a pawn for speedier development.
13.	fxe5	Nxe5
14.	Bf4	d6
15.	Rh1e1	Bb7

Position after move 15.

16.	Bxe5	dxe5    White opens the queen file. The black queen cannot take the pawn because of Bb5+ winning the queen.
17.	Nd4	Qd6
18.	Nc3b5	Qd7
19.	Nf3	Qxd2+   Black forces the queen trade.
20.	Rxd2	e4      White pressure continues.

Position after move 20.

21.	Ne5	e6
22.	Rd7	Be7     White's rook move threatened mate, which is still coming.
23.	Nc7+	Kf8     White has black in a classic "windmill."
24.	Nxe6+	Ke8
25.	Nxg7+           Black resigns. After another knight check, the bishop administers mate.

Position after move 25.

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