Saturday, April 2, 2011

Does Fritz Dream of Electronic Patzers?


G/25 controls lead to execrable games. No less was shown by myself and Greg Tomkovich in our hilarity-riddled "match". Observe the following...
Tomkovich-Mangion - Guess the move....





spoiler alert....





24. .... Rb2! leads to a significant advantage, and in seven moves the game ended (25. Qxb2 Nf3+ being the joke): 25. Qe3 Rxa2 26. h5 Ra3 27. Rd1 Nxc4 28. Qf3 N7e5 29. BxN NxB 30. Qe3 Bb5 31. Nc1 NxB 32. NxN Bd4 0-1


But in fairness Greg played well the next game and had a few opportunities, the best might have been:

Mangion-Tomkovich guess the move.... (Mark K missed this one.....though I only gave him 10 seconds ;)








spoiler alert...





.....Na5! and the queen is really pissed.

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