Here is my Other game where I decided to take the Bishop on Move 28... instead of Taking the Rook with Check, the first I lost on time, because I was looking for a way to beat Komodo with my Rook for Komodo's Bishop plus 3 extra pawns advantage. BAsed on your statement that you gave a Queen Plus a Knight to one of your beginner student, you seems to be around 2100 thru 2175. Anyway you should try to play Komodo13.3 or 14 at Depth 5 with the same time control 10 + 5 sec increment and let us know how you did.Ovyron wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:02 pm I see. I find really strange that the lowest FIDE rating that can be achieved is 1000 and starting people get higher than that already. My students stop dropping pieces after a few games and have no problem getting to a higher level than Stockfish's depth 1, it's surprising 800 elo players at chess.com keep dropping pieces and never improve beyond depth 1's strength. Maybe mentoring is necessary and what I observe isn't typical (because nobody is there to explain to them why they lost.)
[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "DESKTOP-OFQ3C0P"]
[Date "2020.07.24"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Komodo-13.3-64bit"]
[Black "ChessQueen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "1900"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's Pawn"]
[Time "10:44:26"]
[Variation "Indian"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "78"]
1. d4 {(d2-d4 d7-d5 Nb1-c3 Nb8-c6) +0.42/4 0} Nf6 2. Qd3 {(Qd1-d3 d7-d5
Nb1-c3 Nb8-c6 Ng1-f3) +0.40/4 0} d6 3. e4 {(e2-e4 c7-c6 Ng1-f3 Qd8-c7)
+1.02/4 0} e5 4. Nf3 {(Ng1-f3 e5xd4 Nf3xd4 c7-c6) +0.72/4 0} exd4 5. Be2
{(Bf1-e2 Bc8-d7 Nf3xd4 Nb8-c6 Nd4xc6) +0.72/4} c5 6. c3 {(c2-c3 Nb8-c6
c3xd4 Ra8-b8) +0.66/4 0} d5 7. e5 {(e4-e5 Nf6-e4 O-O Nb8-c6 c3xd4) +0.49/4
0} Ne4 8. O-O {(O-O Nb8-c6 c3xd4 Ra8-b8) +0.49/4} dxc3 9. Nxc3 {(Nb1xc3
Ne4xc3 b2xc3 c5-c4) +0.43/4 0} Nxc3 10. bxc3 {(b2xc3 c5-c4 Qd3-d2 Nb8-c6)
+0.43/4} Nc6 11. Rd1 {(Rf1-d1 c5-c4 Qd3-d2 Bf8-c5) +0.90/4 0} Be6 12. Qe3
{(Qd3-e3 Be6-f5 Be2-b5 Bf5-c2) +0.53/4 0} Be7 13. Rb1 {(Ra1-b1 Qd8-d7
Be2-b5 O-O) +0.16/4 0} Qc7 14. Bd3 {(Be2-d3 O-O Bd3-c2 Ra8-e8) +0.14/4 0}
Rd8 15. Bb5 {(Bd3-b5 O-O Bb5-d3 Rf8-e8) -0.11/4 0} a6 16. Bd3 {(Bb5-d3
d5-d4 c3xd4 c5xd4 Qe3-e4) -0.67/4 0} d4 17. Qd2 {(Qe3-d2 d4xc3 Qd2xc3 O-O)
-0.67/4} Bg4 18. Qf4 {(Qd2-f4 Bg4xf3 Qf4xf3 d4xc3) -1.02/4 0} Bxf3 19. Qxf3
{(Qf4xf3 Nc6xe5 Qf3xb7) -1.02/4} dxc3 20. e6 {(e5-e6 f7xe6 Qf3-g4 O-O)
-0.63/4 0} fxe6 21. Qh5+ {(Qf3-h5+ Ke8-f8 Bc1-e3 Rd8-d5 Qh5-g4) -0.63/4}
Kf8 22. Be3 {(Bc1-e3 Rd8-d5 Qh5-g4 Nc6-e5) -0.63/4} Rd5 23. Qf3+ {(Qh5-f3+
Kf8-g8 Qf3-g4 Kg8-f7 Be3-f4) -0.63/4} Bf6 24. Bf4 {(Be3-f4 Rd5xd3 Rd1xd3)
-1.46/4 0} Qd7 25. Be4 {(Bd3-e4 Rd5xd1+ Rb1xd1 Qd7-e7 Bf4-g3) -0.18/4 0}
Nd4 26. Rxd4 {(Rd1xd4 c5xd4 Bf4-g3 Kf8-e8) -2.70/4 0} Rxd4 27. Be5 {(Bf4-e5
Rd4-b4 Be5xc3 Rb4xb1+ Be4xb1) -1.74/4 0} Rb4 28. Bxf6 {(Be5xf6 Rb4xb1+
Be4xb1 g7xf6 Qf3xf6+ Kf8-g8) -1.74/4 0} gxf6 29. Qxf6+ {(Qf3xf6+ Kf8-g8
Qf6-g5+ Kg8-f7 Qg5-h5+ Kf7-f6 Qh5-f3+ Kf6-e7) -1.45/4 0} Kg8 30. Qg5+
{(Qf6-g5+ Kg8-f7 Qg5-h5+ Kf7-f6 Qh5-f3+ Kf6-e7 Qf3xc3) -1.45/4} Qg7 31.
Qd8+ {(Qg5-d8+ Qg7-f8 Qd8-g5+ Kg8-f7 Rb1-e1 Qf8-d6) -0.89/4 0} Qf8 32. Qg5+
{(Qd8-g5+ Kg8-f7 Rb1-e1 Qf8-d6 Qg5-h5+ Kf7-e7 Be4xh7) -0.89/4} Qg7 33. Qd8+
{(Qg5-d8+ Qg7-f8 Qd8-g5+) 0.00/4 0} Qf8 34. Qg5+ {(Qd8-g5+ Kg8-f7 Rb1-e1
Qf8-d6 Qg5-h5+ Kf7-e7) 0.00/4} Qg7 {3-fold repetition} 1/2-1/2[/pgn]