Hello Jorge,
This sounds as if the level is too low and too fast for everyone. Nevertheless
I'd suggest one more game at this level with the Black pieces with the
objective of mating it in 25 moves. Keep a specific lookout for captures
available to Pawns, before and after your move, and look out for backward
captures.
Have fun.
Tyson
On 18 March 2021 at 16:32 Jorge Paez <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Tyson:
Thank you for your feedback.The time control was 60 minutes for each side
and I took about 35 of those minutes.
Stockfish consumed a about 1 minute of it’s time and in fact, ended at 1
hour exactly since it kept moving and generating 30 extra seconds for itself
with every move and it moved quick.
In fact some of the moves were so quick that the announce code on Lichess
didn’t have time to notify me the engine had played at all.
> > On Mar 18, 2021, at 9:46 AM, mordue andrew (Redacted
sender "tyson.mordue" for DMARC) < dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;> wrote:
Hello Jorge,
Congratulations on winning a game.
On move two you played Pawn c2 to c4. Five moves later this Pawn
has promoted and the new Queen has the bonus of taking a Rook on h8.This is
what we call an Excelsior Pawn named after Sam Loyd's famous puzzle and is
very, very rare in practical chess. There's an incidental line where White
could play 6 f7xg8= Knight with check because 6...Rxg8 is answered by 7
Bg5+ skewering the Black royalty. The Queen prmotion is the accurate move
as the same reapture allows the same tactic.
On move 8 you play Qd1xd4 when Black should recapture. He doesn't
and your Queen stands there en prise to a Pawn for a further eleven moves!
After Black's 8th move Deep Rybka evaluates White at +33. No
surprise as he's two Queens, a Rook, a Knight and a Pawn up. In fact he's
got more material than he started with! Deep Rybka also say is it's mate is
six starting with 9 Bg5+. I'd just be wondering why my opponent wasn't
resigning but, of course, the answer is that it's an engine and they don't
resign. In a normal game a difference of +1 is usually a sign that someone
is in trouble so +33 is enormous, and that's only move 8!!
I think all this tells you something about the quality of Stockfish
at Level 1. Naturally you can't be blamed if the engine plays this badly,
but what you need to do is tidy up your own play a bit. You are still
leaving and putting things en prise to Pawns.However, there is more of a
structure to your game here. Pieces are getting developed and being used
effectively, although I don't understand the Knight trip to d8. Perhaps it
had a day-rider ticket?
At move 18 Queen (either) xg7+ Kh5 19 Qg5 is mate. There is a clear
tendency by beginners to take the engine's remaining pieces instead of
checkmating, and that is apparent here. As written elsewhere there is a
risk of stalemating instead. With two extra Queens I would be very
disappointed if I couldn't checkmate in five moves on an open board.
Don't forget that pieces can move backwards as well. The Queen on
the eighth rank could have been used to execute the mate in the final
position. In fact there are only two White retreats in the whole game and
one of them puts the original Queen en prise.
However, the good thing is that you are playing, winning and
publicising which is what we want people to do. My only question, assuming
the engine raced through this game at something silly like five seconds a
move, is how long did you take for the game? It would be useful to know the
amount of time that you took over moves that were either good ones or those
which might have been improved upon.
Regards,
Tyson
> > > On 18 March 2021 at 11:03 Jorge Paez <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;> wrote:
>
Hello everyone.
So after 2 days of no practice in order to be able to reset
my mental clock following my rapid tournament last Saturday, I started
out today with a classical game of 120/30 (60+30 increment per side.)
Below is the notation plus the PGN.
This is your’s truly vs. Stockfish level 1 on Lichess.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jorge
[Event "Casual Classical game"]
[Site " https://lichess.org/uoO34iee"] ;
https://lichess.org/uoO34iee
[Date "2021.03.18"]
[White "paezchess"]
[Black "lichess AI level 1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2021.03.18"]
[UTCTime "10:19:10"]
[WhiteElo "1125"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "3600+8"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Opening "Slav Defense: Exchange Variation"]
[Termination "Normal"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 e6 4. dxe6 Na6 5. exf7+ Ke7 6.
fxg8=Q c5 7. Qxh8 Qxd4 8. Qxd4 Be6 9. b4 Kf7 10. Nc3 Re8 11. Nf3 Bf5 12.
e4 Kg6 13. Bb5 Re6 14. O-O Bg4 15. Bc4 Nxb4 16. Bxe6 Bxe6 17. Qxf8 Nd3
18. Be3 Kh5 19. Qh8 Bf5 20. Qe5 a6 21. Ng5 Nxf2 22. Qe6 Bg6 23. Nf7 Bxe4
24. Nd8 b6 25. a4 Ng4 26. a5 bxa5 27. Rxa5 Bxg2 28. Re1 Be4 29. Rb5 Bd3
30. Rxc5+ g5 31. Re5 a5 32. Rxg5+ Kh4 33. Qe4 h5 34. Rxh5# 1-0
> >
