Komodo vs Jeremy Kane knight odds

[lkaufman]

I am at the annual chess.com get-together, in Cancun Mexico. One of the chess.com coaches, Jeremy Kane, is here too and has agreed to play Komodo (MCTS) at knight odds on chess.com today, planned for 3 pm Eastern Time. Although he doesn't have a FIDE title, he is a rather strong player, USCF rating 2384, chess.com blitz rating 2600. Roughly a class stronger than Larry Gilden, who lost his knight odds match to Komodo 6 to 0. He is a full-time chess pro for chess.com, age 30, and especially good at blitz. We didn't decide details yet. It is possible other strong players may play as well. There are two or three GMs here (besides me). So look for games today (and perhaps also tomorrow) on chess.com by "playkomodo". Jeremy Kane is "coachjkane". I think Jeremy may be too strong for knight odds, depending on the time limit; if we wins too easily we might try the next smaller handicap, probably f7 + c7, which is the largest of all the two pawn handicaps except f7 + g7.

[lkaufman]

Komodo MCTS (Contempt 150, 16 core i9) played two games with Jeremy Kane today at knight odds at 10' + 5". Both games ended in draws. In the first game he retained his extra piece but got so tied up that he couldn't do better than repeat. In the second game Komodo got an attack and he made one mistake in defense, that allowed Komodo to win back much of the material but the resultant endgame was still much better for the human but complex enough that both sides settled for a repetition. I'll try to post games when I can. Probably more games tomorrow, either with the same opponent or perhaps with an Indian IM, Rakesh.

[JJJ]

So Komodo get two draw with knight odds against a player rated 2600 on chess.com. Very impressive.

[lkaufman]

Yes, here is the first game:
[pgn][Event "Live Chess - Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2019.Oct.23"]
[Round "1"]
[White "PlayKomodo (MCTS)"]
[Black "CoachJKane (2600 blitz)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Nf3 d6 6. Ng5 O-O 7. b4 Bb6 8. O-O h6
9. Nf3 Be6 10. Bxe6 fxe6 11. Rb1 Qe8 12. Be3 Qh5 13. h3 Rae8 14. Re1 Ne7 15. a4
Bxe3 16. Rxe3 Qf7 17. a5 Ng6 18. a6 b6 19. Qf1 d5 20. c4 dxe4 21. dxe4 Rd8 22.
c5 Qe7 23. Qc4 Nh5 24. g3 Qf6 25. Qc2 Rf7 26. Rc1 Qe7 27. Qb3 Rdf8 28. Rcc3 Nf6
29. Kg2 Nh7 30. cxb6 cxb6 31. Re2 Ng5 32. Nh2 h5 33. h4 Nh7 34. Nf3 Rd8 35. Rc6
Rd6 36. Rc8+ Rf8 37. Rec2 Rd7 38. R2c6 Rxc8 39. Rxc8+ Nhf8 40. b5 Qf6 41. Qc3
Rf7 42. Qe3 Ne7 43. Re8 Ng6 44. Ra8 Rd7 45. Qc1 Rf7 46. Qe3 Rd7 47. Qc3 Rf7 48.
Qe3 1/2-1/2/[pgn][/pgn][/pgn]

[lkaufman]

Second game, 14...f6! would have been much better, to meet 14.Qxg6? by 14...Qxh3!. The final position was still winning for Black, but given the time remaining and strength gap he understandably settled for repetition, and Komodo's 150 Contempt was not enough to make it avoid the repetition here, since Contempt fades away in the endgame.

[pgn][Event "Live Chess - handicap Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2019.Oct.23"]
[Round "2"]
[White "PlayKomodo(mcts)"]
[Black "CoachJKane(2600 blitz)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - 0 1"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. d3 Nf6 4. O-O d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nc3 Nxc3 7. bxc3 Bd6 8.
Bd5 O-O 9. Rb1 Qd7 10. Re1 b6 11. Qh5 Bb7 12. Re3 g6 13. Qh6 Kh8 14. Rh3 f5? 15.
Qxg6 Qg7 16. Qxg7+ Kxg7 17. Bh6+ Kg6 18. Bxf8 Rxf8 19. Rg3+ Kf6 20. Rh3 Kg6 21.
Rg3+ Kf6 22. Rh3 Kg6 1/2-1/2/[pgn][/pgn][/pgn]