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.

Beating the Computer with the Sicilian Defense

I played black and the computer played white.

	White	Black
1.	e4	c5
2.	Nf3	Nc6
3.	Bc4	e6       "White's bishop bites on granite." --Bobby Fischer
4.	d3	a6       The closed variation is rarely played because it is so passive for white.
5.	a4	Qc7      White prevents unpleasantness with black's potential b5.

Position after move 5.

6.	Bg5	Nf6
7.	O-O	Be7
8.	Qe1	d6       Black's pawn move prevents e5.
9.	Bc1	O-O      White wastes time.
10.	Nc3	b6

Position after move 10.

11.	Ra3	Bb7      Black develops patiently.
12.	Qe2	Ra8d8
13.	g3	Rf8e8
14.	Kg2	Bf8
15.	Ba2	h6       All black's pieces are in place.
16.	Qd2	d5       Black makes his thrust in the center.

Position after Qd2.

17.	exd5	exd5
18.	Qd1	d4
19.	Bf4	Bd6
20.	Bxd6	Qxd6

Position after move 20.

21.	Ne4	Nxe4
22.	dxe4	Rxe4     Black has won a pawn.
23.	Nd2	Re7
24.	Kg1	Ne5
25.	f4	Qc6      Black threatens mate.

Position after move 25.

26.	Nf3	Nxf3+
27.	Rf1xf3	Rd8e8    Black has too much pressure now.
28.	Kf2	Re3
29.	Ra3xe3	dxe3+    White will lose a rook.
30.	Ke1	Qxf3
31.	Qxf3	Bxf3     Black enters the end game a rook and a pawn up.
32.	Bc4	a5
33.	Be2	Bxe2
34.	Kxe2	f5
35.	h3	h5
36.	b3	Kf7
37.	c3	Re4
38.	h4	Ke6
39.	Kf1	Kd5
40.	Ke2	c4
41.	b4	axb4
42.	cxb4	c3
43.	a5	bxa5
44.	bxa5	c2
45.	g4	h5xg4
46.	Kf1	e2+    White resigns

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