New opponent, new handicaps for Komodo.

[lkaufman]

Komodo won the first game (knight for pawn handicap), drew the second (two pawns and move handicap). Final game in an hour.

[JJJ]

So far so good for me
I still bet for komodo win last game.

[JJJ]

Last game, Komodo quickly equalized, so he will win. I predicted 2,5 / 3 and I was very right ^^

[lkaufman]

Last game, Komodo quickly equalized, so he will win. I predicted 2,5 / 3 and I was very right ^^

Indeed, Komodo did win pretty quickly, finishing with a dramatic queen sacrifice followed by a quiet rook move!. It looks like FM needs at least a 2.5 eval to have balanced chances, the two he lost were close to just +2 eval.

[JJJ]

Yes ! That's helps you to know how really strong Komodo is against human.

[lkaufman]

[Event "Rapid 45m+45s-45m+15s"]
[Site "Bethesda"]
[Date "2017.07.01"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Komodo 1894.00 64-bit 24core"]
[Black "Samuelson, Andrew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "Kaufman,Larry"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/ppppp1pp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[TimeControl "2700+15"]

{2048MB, OFFICE-20CORE} 1. e4 {-1.18/29 61} d6 {18 (c5)} 2. Bc4 {-1.31/30 214}
Nf6 {34 (Nc6)} 3. d4 {-1.32/33 187} e5 {40 (Nc6)} 4. c3 {-1.48/31 144} Nc6 {127
} 5. O-O {-1.54/32 0} Bd7 {383 (Nxe4)} 6. b4 {-1.12/31 209} Qe7 {61} 7. Re1 {
-1.11/31 85} g6 {217} 8. Nd2 {-1.15/32 0} Bg7 {56 (Bh6)} 9. Nf3 {-1.35/32 222}
Nd8 {161 (Bg4)} 10. dxe5 {-1.19/32 126} dxe5 {19} 11. Be3 {-1.19/34 203} b6 {
78 (Nxe4)} 12. Qb3 {-0.88/32 213} Nb7 {95} 13. Rad1 {-0.86/35 177} O-O-O {242}
14. a4 {-0.98/34 0} Bc6 {155 (Nd6)} 15. Bd5 {-0.26/32 57} Bxd5 {97 (Qe8)} 16.
exd5 {0.00/35 41} Rhe8 {357 (Qd6)} 17. a5 {0.27/29 45} Nd7 {288 (b5)} 18. c4 {
1.74/31 76} e4 {101} 19. Ng5 {2.22/33 0} Nf6 {140 (Bh6)} 20. axb6 {3.54/31 141}
cxb6 {32} 21. Ne6 {4.07/33 95} Ng4 {66 (Bf8)} 22. Bf4 {4.18/31 39} Rf8 {
182 (g5)} 23. Bg3 {6.03/31 35} Nd6 {121 (Be5)} 24. c5 {8.33/25 296} Nf5 {
23 (Be5)} 25. d6 {24.52/24 291} Qf7 {59 (Qb7)} 26. Qd5 {#12/19 7} Nxg3 {
52 (Rxd6)} 27. d7+ {#9/22 6} Kb8 {30} 28. Qd6+ {#8/31 0} Ka8 {35} 29. Nc7+ {
#7/39 0} Kb8 {30} 30. Nb5+ {#6/66 0} Kb7 {29} 31. c6+ {#5/99 0} Ka8 {29} 32.
Nc7+ {#4/99 0} Kb8 {11} 33. Na6+ {#3/99 0} Ka8 {8} 34. Qb8+ {#2/99 0} Rxb8 {10}
35. Nc7# {#1/99 0} 1-0

[lkaufman]

[Event "Rapid 45m+45s-45m+15s"]
[Site "Bethesda"]
[Date "2017.07.01"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Samuelson, Andrew"]
[Black "Komodo, 1894.00."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Annotator "Kaufman,Larry"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pp1pp1pp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "92"]

{[#]} 1. e4 {0} g6 {1.78/30 167} 2. d4 {22} Bg7 {1.77/29 21} 3. c3 {41 (Nc3)}
d6 {1.73/31 83} 4. Nf3 {57 (Bc4)} Nf6 {1.73/30 70} 5. e5 {77 (Bd3)} dxe5 {
1.74/29 58} 6. Nxe5 {25} Nc6 {1.88/33 211} 7. Bb5 {85 (Nxc6)} Qd5 {1.24/31 56}
8. Bxc6+ {435} bxc6 {1.39/38 0} 9. O-O {62} Nd7 {1.46/35 243} 10. Nxd7 {93}
Bxd7 {1.56/34 0} 11. Qb3 {71 (Nd2)} a5 {1.16/33 58} 12. Qxd5 {59 (Re1)} cxd5 {
0.94/33 49} 13. Bg5 {26 (Re1)} h6 {0.62/32 58} 14. Bh4 {55} Kf7 {0.75/35 49}
15. Re1 {57} Rhe8 {0.78/35 0} 16. Bg3 {74} a4 {0.69/36 0} 17. Na3 {123 (Nd2)}
Ra7 {0.50/37 99} 18. Nc2 {60 (Be5)} Rb7 {0.56/34 54} 19. Nb4 {32 (Ne3)} Bxd4 {
0.48/35 68} 20. Nxd5 {30 (Rad1)} Bg7 {0.27/38 92} 21. Re2 {40} Bb5 {0.37/37 4}
22. Re3 {54} Rd8 {0.34/39 13} 23. Nb4 {79} Rd2 {0.42/39 81} 24. Rb1 {56 (b3)}
Bc4 {0.44/40 129} 25. a3 {82 (h3)} Rbd7 {0.34/36 44} 26. f3 {65 (Ree1)} Rd1+ {
0.19/39 54} 27. Re1 {34 (Rxd1)} Rxb1 {0.00/39 35} 28. Rxb1 {21} Rd2 {0.00/40 13
} 29. Nc6 {143 (h3)} g5 {0.00/36 43} 30. Be1 {252} Rc2 {0.00/46 0} 31. Nd4 {
133 (Bg3)} Bxd4+ {0.05/43 187} 32. cxd4 {18} Bd5 {0.00/48 10} 33. h3 {59} h5 {
0.00/52 0} 34. Bc3 {59} g4 {0.00/51 0} 35. hxg4 {13 (Rf1)} hxg4 {0.00/50 28}
36. Rf1 {52} gxf3 {0.00/53 3} 37. gxf3 {19} Re2 {0.00/53 41} 38. Rf2 {33} Re3 {
0.00/52 11} 39. Kg2 {45} Kf6 {0.00/56 0} 40. Kg3 {60 (Bb4)} Kf5 {0.00/55 35}
41. Rf1 {83} Rd3 {0.00/62 0} 42. Rf2 {77} e6 {0.00/61 0} 43. Rf1 {85} Bc6 {
0.00/63 0} 44. Rf2 {67} Bd5 {0.00/67 0} 45. Rf1 {31} Bc6 {0.00/65 53} 46. Rf2 {
31} Bd5 {0.00/87 133} 1/2-1/2

[lkaufman]

[Event "Rapid 45m+45s-45m+15s"]
[Site "Bethesda"]
[Date "2017.07.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Samuelson, Andrew"]
[Black "Komodo, 1894.00."]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "Kaufman,Larry"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbq1bnr/ppppp1pp/5p2/8/4k3/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "66"]

{[#]} 1. Nh3 {0} Ke5 {0.80/31 140} 2. e4 {29} e6 {0.76/30 18} 3. d4+ {27} Kd6 {
0.73/30 39} 4. Bc4 {43 (d5)} Ke7 {0.93/33 309} 5. d5 {22 (0-0)} Qe8 {1.13/32
250} 6. O-O {86} Kd8 {1.11/34 14} 7. Nc3 {83 (dxe6)} e5 {0.38/28 37} 8. f4 {38}
d6 {0.55/32 87} 9. Qf3 {43 (fxe5)} Nd7 {0.14/29 68} 10. Bb5 {46 (Ne2)} a6 {
0.00/32 125} 11. Ba4 {18 (Be2)} h5 {-0.19/31 36} 12. fxe5 {80 (b4)} Nxe5 {
-0.15/34 61} 13. Qe2 {143 (Qf2)} b5 {0.00/33 118} 14. Bb3 {19} g5 {0.00/35 75}
15. Nf2 {84} Bg7 {0.00/37 0} 16. Nd3 {61} Nh6 {0.00/34 17} 17. a4 {68 (Nb4)}
Nxd3 {-0.29/34 93} 18. Qxd3 {124} Ng4 {-0.17/36 0} 19. h3 {164 (Qd4)} Ne5 {
-0.47/31 43} 20. Qe3 {34} h4 {-0.59/33 81} 21. axb5 {46} g4 {-0.58/31 0} 22. b6
{49 (Kh1)} gxh3 {-0.64/28 33} 23. bxc7+ {25} Kxc7 {-0.37/30 23} 24. gxh3 {
50 (Ne2)} Bh6 {-6.15/29 29} 25. Qe1 {52 (Nb5+)} Rg8+ {-17.95/29 37} 26. Kh1 {
24 (Kf2)} Rg3 {-25.09/26 300} 27. Bxh6 {127 (Bf4)} Rxh3+ {-#9/25 7} 28. Kg2 {20
} Qg6+ {-#8/34 0} 29. Kf2 {12} Rh2+ {-#7/38 0} 30. Ke3 {20} Qxh6+ {-#6/54 0}
31. Rf4 {30} Qxf4+ {-#5/99 0} 32. Kxf4 {19} Rh3 {-#4/99 0} 33. Qg1 {82 (Nb5+)}
Rf3# {-#1/99 0} 0-1

[Kotlov]

[Nordlandia]

Brief lichess analysis of the games ->

Game 1: https://lichess.org/8gMeiDOu

Game 2: https://lichess.org/XHGE2u4f

Game 3: https://lichess.org/LHZwaiIP