planned weekly komodo vs human series on chess.com

[carldaman]

How do you actually "observe" someone at chess.com?

It's a horribly designed site. I have an account there, but hardly ever use it.

Edit: I figured out a way, by searching for playkomodo and clicking on the latest game.

No games are currently in progress.

[lkaufman]

How do you actually "observe" someone at chess.com?

It's a horribly designed site. I have an account there, but hardly ever use it.

Edit: I figured out a way, by searching for playkomodo and clicking on the latest game.

No games are currently in progress.

Second game was won decisively by playkomodo (g1 odds). Third game (960 knight odds) is in the endgame now fairly even. Komodo won it. Fourth game (960) in a couple minutes.

[lkaufman]

Fourth game (960 knight odds) opening is amazing. Komodo gambited two pawns in the first four moves!

[lkaufman]

So finally Komodo won all the games after the initial draw, 0.5 to 5.5. Ray's best game was the final one, f7 + g7 odds, where he reached the endgame still two pawns ahead, but there were enough complications and time shortage for Komodo to win anyway. Apparently raising Contempt to 200 made a big difference in the knight odds games. I suppose future matches will mostly be knight odds, with details varying depending on level of opponent and time limit. Perhaps we can already challenge a low rated GM (not as low as myself!) to knight odds at quick rapid like this.

[lkaufman]

[pgn]
[Event "Live Chess - Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "Aug 21, 2019"]
[Round "1"]
[White "PlayKomodo"]
[Black "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Bb2 g6 4. e3 Bg7 5. c4 c6 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O Bg4 8. Qc2
Nbd7 9. d4 Ne4 10. Bd1 Rc8 11. Ne1 Bxd1 12. Rxd1 f5 13. Nd3 e6 14. f3 Nef6 15.
Rfe1 Qe7 16. a4 Qf7 17. a5 Rfe8 18. Kh1 Kh8 19. Kg1 g5 20. Ba3 Rg8 21. Kh1 Bf8
22. Bxf8 Rcxf8 23. cxd5 exd5 24. a6 Qe6 25. axb7 Rb8 26. Ra1 Rxb7 27. Ra6 Rc7
28. Ra5 Rgc8 29. Kg1 Kg8 30. Ra6 Qd6 31. Nf2 Qe6 32. Nd3 Qd6 33. Nf2 Qe6 34. Nd3
1/2-1/2[/pgn]

[lkaufman]

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Handicap match"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "August 21, 2019"]
[Round "2-g1 knight odds"]
[White "PlayKomodo"]
[Black "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 c5 4. e3 Be7 5. dxc5 Na6 6. e4 O-O 7. e5 Ne8 8. O-O
Nxc5 9. b4 Na6 10. a3 d6 11. c4 dxe5 12. Qe2 Bf6 13. Rd1 Qe7 14. Be3 Bg5 15.
Bxg5 Qxg5 16. Nd2 Nd6 17. Nf3 Qe7 18. Nxe5 f6 19. c5 Nf5 20. Nc4 e5 21. Nd6 Nxd6
22. cxd6 Qf7 23. Qb5 Rd8 24. Bd5 Be6 25. Bxe6 Qxe6 26. Qxb7 Qc8 27. Qd5+ Kf8 28.
d7 Qc7 29. Rac1 1-0[/pgn]

[lkaufman]

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Handicap match"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "August 21, 2019"]
[Round "3 (frc knight odds)"]
[White "PlayKomodo"]
[Black "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnqbknbr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/R1QBKNBR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. f4 c5 2. e4 d6 3. Ne3 Nc6 4. d3 e6 5. Bf2 Ng6 6. a3 h6 7. b4 Be7 8. g3 Bh7 9.
O-O O-O 10. b5 Nd4 11. a4 a6 12. c3 axb5 13. cxd4 cxd4 14. Nc2 bxa4 15. Bg4 Bf6
16. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 17. Nxd4 Qxc1 18. Rfxc1 Ra5 19. Rc4 h5 20. Bd1 d5 21. Rcxa4 Rxa4
22. Rxa4 dxe4 23. dxe4 e5 24. Ne2 exf4 25. gxf4 Re8 26. Bc2 h4 27. Kf2 Kf8 28.
Rb4 Re7 29. Rc4 f6 30. Ba4 Nxf4 31. Rc8+ Kf7 32. Nxf4 Rxe4 33. Bb3+ Ke7 34. Nd5+
Kd6 35. Rd8+ Ke5 36. Nc3 Rf4+ 37. Ke3 1-0[/pgn]

[lkaufman]

The most amazing game, White just gambits two pawns on moves 3 and 4, and it worked.

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Handicap Match"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "August 21, 2019"]
[Round "4 (frc knight odds)"]
[White "PlayKomodo"]
[Black "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbnkbqr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/R1BNKBQR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. Nc3 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. g3 fxg3 4. b3 gxh2 5. Qxh2 Ne6 6. Bb2 d6 7. Bh3 Bd7 8.
Nd5 Na6 9. Rg1 c6 10. Nf6+ gxf6 11. Rxg8 Rxg8 12. O-O-O Be7 13. Rf1 Nac7 14.
Bxf6 Bxf6 15. Rxf6 Nd5 16. Rh6 Ndf4 17. Bxe6 Nxe6 18. Qxd6 O-O-O 19. Rxh7 Ng5
20. Rh2 Be6 21. Qf4 Rg6 22. d3 Rdg8 23. Kb2 Bd7 24. a4 f5 25. Rh5 R6g7 26. b4
Nf7 27. b5 Rg4 28. Qe3 Kb8 29. Qe7 Be8 30. Rxf5 cxb5 31. Rc5 a6 32. Rc7 Bc6 33.
axb5 axb5 34. Qxf7 1-0[/pgn]

[lkaufman]

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Handicap match"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "August 21, 2019"]
[Round "5 (pawn and 3 moves)"]
[White "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"]
[Black "PlayKomodo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/ppppp1pp/8/8/3PP3/8/PPP2PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. Nc3 e6 2. Bd3 Nc6 3. Be3 d6 4. e5 Nge7 5. exd6 cxd6 6. Nf3 d5 7. Qe2 Ng8 8.
O-O-O Bb4 9. Ng5 Nf6 10. Nb1 O-O 11. c3 Bd6 12. f4 Qc7 13. g3 Nb4 14. Nd2 Nxd3+
15. Qxd3 Bd7 16. Kb1 Qb6 17. Ndf3 h6 18. Nh3 Bb5 19. Qc2 Ne4 20. Nf2 Be2 21.
Nxe4 Bxf3 22. Nxd6 Qxd6 23. Rhf1 Be4 0-1[/pgn]

[lkaufman]

Ray's near-win. He was three pawns up after 31 moves.

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Handicap match"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "August 21, 2019"]
[Round "6 (f7 + g7 odds)"]
[White "Mimsychess (I.M. Raymond Kaufman)"]
[Black "PlayKomodo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/ppppp2p/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. Bc4 c5 5. dxc5 dxc5 6. Qxd8+ Kxd8 7. Be3 Ng4 8.
Bxc5 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Ne5 10. O-O-O+ Kc7 11. Bd4 Nbc6 12. Be2 Rf8 13. f3 Be6 14.
Kb2 Nc4+ 15. Bxc4 Bxc4 16. Bf2 e5 17. Nh3 Be6 18. Ng5 Bg8 19. Bg3 Rae8 20. Nh3
Kc8 21. Nf2 Na5 22. Ng4 Nc4+ 23. Kc1 h5 24. Nh6 Kc7 25. Nxg8 Rxg8 26. Rd5 b6 27.
Rhd1 h4 28. Bxh4 Rxg2 29. Bg3 Kc6 30. Rd8 Rxd8 31. Rxd8 b5 32. Rd5 Ne3 33. Rd3
Rxc2+ 34. Kb1 Re2 35. h4 Nc4 36. h5 Rg2 37. Bh4 Rh2 38. Bf6 Rxh5 39. Rd5 Rh1+
40. Kc2 Ne3+ 0-1[/pgn]