June 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.

Queen's Gambit Accepted

I played white and the computer played black. Neither side made any tactical errors, but the game was over in two dozen moves.

	White	Black
1.	Nf3	Nc6	Nf3 is the opening move of the Reti System, but black's response is unusual.
2.	d4	d5
3.	e3	Qd6	It's generally not advisable to move the queen so early in the game.
4.	a3	Bg4	White makes a prophylactic move to keep the black knight or queen off b4.
5.	Be2	Nh6	White unpins his king's knight. Black's king's knight would be better placed on f6.

Position after move 5.

6.	h3	Bf5	Putting the question to the bishop also gets "luft," possibly useful in the middle game.
7.	O-O	O-O-O	Castling queenside is a strategic error on the part of black.
8.	c4	dxc4	Finally the "gambit" pawn is pushed and taken. Not a true gambit now because there's no question of black keeping it.
9.	Bxc4	Na5	Chasing the bishop is futile and misplaces black's knight, which will have to waste anotherm move in returning.
10.	Be2	Be6	Black threatens to fork white's rook and bishop with Nb3, which is easily countered.

Position after move 10.

11.	Nb1d2	Qd5
12.	b4	Nc6
13.	Bb2	Bd7	White develops in a natural manner.
14.	Qc2	Qh5	Black's queen is needed for defense of her king.
15.	Rf1c1	a6	Now all of white's pieces are developed and ready to attack.

Position after move 15.

16.	a4	Bf5	Black's counter-attack is easily sidestepped.
17.	Qc3	e6
18.	b5	Bb4
19.	Qc4	axb5	Taking the pawn is not good but there is probably nothing to be done now anyway.
20.	axb5	Bd6

Position after move 20.

21.	bxc6	Kb8
22.	cxb7	c5
23.	Ra8+	Kxb7
24.	Qa6+ Black resigns

Position after move 24.

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