Sanny wrote:
GetClub Easy Level plays B-d6 (Bf4-d6)

(GetClub Easy Level) vs (IVAN 1-2 min)


1. e4 c6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 Bf5
4. Bd3 Bxd3
5. Qxd3 e6
6. Nf3 Na6
7. Be3 Nb4
8. Qc3 Na6
9. 0-0 Bb4
10. Qd3 Qb6
11. Nc3 Ba5
12. Na4 Qd8
13. a3 Ne7
14. b4 Bc7
15. Bg5 Qd7
16. Rb1 0-0
17. b5 cxb5
18. Qxb5 Qxb5
19. Rxb5 Rd7
20 Ra1-b1 Bd8
21.Rb1-b2 Rc7
22. Rb2-b3 f6
23. exf6 gxf6
24. Bxf6 Rxc2
25. Rc3 Rxc3
26. Nxc3 Rf8
27. Bg7 Rg8
28. Be5 Nc6
29. Rb3 Nc7
30. Bf4 Na5
31. Rb2 Nc4
32. Rb4 Rg4
33. g3 Nxa3
34. Bd6


I think GetClub has made some blunder lets see whats the score?

The blind leading the blind.

Unless I misread this game White offers a novelty queen for a pawn
sacrifice for no compensation when 17. .... Nc3 was the obvious move.

And then black lets white back into the game with 18. .... Bd8
At this point Getclub should have snapped up the black queen.
19. RxQ is the only sane move.

Instead the two engines slug it out with Black playing a game of
"chicken" to see how long he can leave his queen en prise whilst
refusing to capture the adjacent white en prise knight whilst still
making legal moves and without white actually bothering to take it. The
black queens cloak of invisibility is fascinating - looks like both
engines may share a common bug in the move generator or something!

Eventually he has to move a knight and accidentally defends the queen,
but even then white could have played BxN. This game is hilarious but
for all the wrong reasons. I suggest you ditch Ivan it is a rubbish
engine. Not even two patzers would miss RxQ for this many moves!

Getclub should have at least drawn this if it had even the first clue.
Any toy chess engine should find 19. RxQ pretty quickly.

It isn't worth analysing this beyond saying that there are major bugs in
both engines or possibly that the game record itself is inaccurate.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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