Rook odds match: human vs engines.

[Chessqueen]

Hi.

Now, the second game against Lc0, removing the a1 rook.
I deviated from the first game, with 3... d6 (instead of 3... Nc6).
Lc0 gave me a hard time, not allowing me to activate my rooks.
Then, the move 19. Ng6 (allowing me to activate one rook) gave me a lot of confidence in my position.
23... Rc8 is a mistake, which loses a bishop (of course I missed it). Fortunately, I was still an exchange up, with a very good position, and soon was two (and then three) pawns up too.
I did not hesitate sacrifice the exchange and enter a knight vs bishop ending, being three pawns up, with 29... Ra3 30. Kd4 Rg3
Before that, I felt that the bishops were harassing my king, my rook and my knight.
On the other hand, usually it is very easy to avoid a single bishop.
I made some mistakes afterwards (for example, I missed 43... Bf3), but by that point my advantage was overwhelming, there was never a risk of not winning this ending.

[pgn]
[Event "banksia game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2022.04.14"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lc0 v0.27.0"]
[Black "hm::Garcia Ruvalcaba, Jose de Jesus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "3500"]
[Time "20:44:10"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]
[Termination "mate"]

1. Nf3 {-6.10/5 108079 6613} 1... Nf6 2. c4 {-7.73/5 40817 3694} 2... c5 3. Nc3
{-9.08/5 39400 3544} 3... d6 4. e3 {-8.27/4 27983 2561} 4... Bg4 5. Be2 {-7.18/4
26961 1873} 5... Nc6 6. d4 {-6.08/5 22729 1896} 6... cxd4 7. exd4 {-6.76/5 10104
1023} 7... d5 8. cxd5 {-5.34/6 13557 1436} 8... Nxd5 9. Qb3 {-4.96/6 9197 1530}
9... Nxc3 10. bxc3 {-5.67/6 250 1629} 10... Qb6 11. Qa4 {-5.99/6 19685 2262}
11... e6 12. O-O {-5.90/6 22741 1647} 12... Be7 13. Be3 {-7.01/7 22871 2356}
13... Qa5 14. Qxa5 {-5.92/7 9972 1782} 14... Nxa5 15. Bb5+ {-12.16/5 10609 2081}
15... Kd8 16. Ne5 {-10.82/6 3896 1974} 16... Bh5 17. g4 {-9.90/5 19305 2689}
17... Bg6 18. d5 {-9.04/5 44060 3748} 18... Bd6 19. Nxg6 {-9.33/6 6244 3181}
19... hxg6 20. dxe6 {-10.91/5 22354 2912} 20... f6 21. Rd1 {-11.85/5 41138 3785}
21... Ke7 22. Kg2 {-18.15/5 34529 3556} 22... Rxh2+ 23. Kf3 {-22.71/5 33767
2929} 23... Rc8 24. Rxd6 {-16.21/5 24271 3096} 24... Kxd6 25. Bf4+ {-24.12/6
11875 1984} 25... Kxe6 26. Bxh2 {-27.07/6 8401 1403} 26... Rxc3+ 27. Ke4
{-27.23/5 30222 2659} 27... Rc2 28. Bg3 {-27.78/5 115784 9755} 28... Rxa2 29.
Kd3 {-19.25/5 22489 2751} 29... Ra3+ 30. Kd4 {-34.92/5 8778 2540} 30... Rxg3 31.
fxg3 {-37.38/5 16781 1317} 31... Nc6+ 32. Kc5 {-29.75/5 28301 2481} 32... g5 33.
Ba4 {-26.38/5 30084 3582} 33... Ke5 34. Bc2 {-18.54/5 24824 2980} 34... Nd4 35.
Bg6 {-31.97/6 21377 3526} 35... Ne2 36. Bd3 {-48.35/5 88714 12371} 36... Nxg3
37. Kc4 {-67.12/5 15491 3287} 37... Ne4 38. Be2 {-49.50/5 23641 2493} 38... g6
39. Bd1 {-45.69/5 41607 4634} 39... f5 40. Be2 {-37.68/4 20021 2142} 40... f4
41. Kd3 {-30.66/5 20240 2050} 41... Nf6 42. Bd1 {-51.16/5 32784 3860} 42... Kd5
43. Bf3+ {-50.14/4 18339 1669} 43... Kc5 44. Bxb7 {-64.34/4 14356 1453} 44...
Nxg4 45. Bc8 {-36.67/4 16208 1763} 45... Ne5+ 46. Ke4 {-30.96/5 12591 1096}
46... Nc4 47. Ba6 {-15.25/5 14106 1664} 47... Nd6+ 48. Kf3 {-32.18/5 14831 1383}
48... Kb6 49. Bd3 {-59.00/5 19619 1764} 49... a5 50. Bc2 {-41.86/4 7778 1551}
50... Kc5 51. Bb3 {-46.90/4 18971 2339} 51... Kb4 52. Ba2 {-53.13/5 17063 1981}
52... Kc3 53. Bd5 {-55.05/4 14364 1939} 53... a4 54. Ba2 {-46.87/5 34231 4026}
54... Kb2 55. Bd5 {-72.87/4 13143 1490} 55... a3 56. Be6 {-37.87/4 10221 1374}
56... a2 57. Bxa2 {-17.34/5 6258 685} 57... Kxa2 58. Kg4 {-40.26/5 8429 1697}
58... Nf7 59. Kf3 {-47.01/5 10850 1539} 59... Kb3 60. Ke4 {-32.06/5 10495 1814}
60... Kc4 61. Kf3 {-18.26/1 10 155} 61... Kd3 62. Kf2 {-30.17/5 10563 1245}
62... g4 63. Ke1 {-39.64/5 11388 1752} 63... g3 64. Kf1 {-29.59/5 8287 989}
64... f3 65. Kg1 {-15.40/6 12208 1640} 65... Ke2 66. Kh1 {-8.90/1 10 155} 66...
Ng5 67. Kg1 {M-5/1 10 97} 67... Nh3+ 68. Kh1 {M-4/1 10 16} 68... Nf4 69. Kg1
{M-2/1 10 5} 69... f2+ 70. Kh1 {M-1/1 10 3} 70... f1=Q# 0-1
[/pgn]

Next game is against Stockfish, removing the h1 rook.
To be played when I get the chance.

Greetings.

Well done, even early on you could have traded your Bishop for Lco Knight on f3 after 5. Be2...5.BxNf3, and place your Knight on c6 after the exchange, with a Rook Odds the earlier you trade the less your opponent Engine has a chance of using his tactical superiority. Also on move 22....Rxh2? you should have taken the pawn with your Bishop 22.......Bxh2! to avoid the engine from taking your Bishop and and pinning your Rook

For example after 5......Bxf3 if I was to play versus Komodo Dagon 2.6.1 this is how I would have continued

[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "MININT-UB2PIMJ"]
[Date "2022.04.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dragon-2.6.1-64bit-avx2"]
[Black "ChessQueen"]
[Result "*"]
[BlackElo "1750"]
[Time "01:35:34"]
[WhiteElo "3600"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rn1qkb1r/pp2pppp/3p1n2/2p5/2P3b1/2N1PN2/PP1PBPPP/2BQK2R b Kkq - 2 1"]
[Termination "unterminated"]
[PlyCount "12"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "human"]


1. ... Bxf3 2. Bxf3 {(Be2xf3 Nb8-c6 g2-g4) -2.76/24 16} Nc6 3. g4 {(g2-g4
e7-e6 Bf3-g2) -3.03/24 32} Qc8 4. h3 {(h2-h3 g7-g6 Bf3-g2) -2.97/26 78} e6
5. g5 {(g4-g5 Nf6-d7 h3-h4) -3.06/26 47} Nd7 6. h4 {(h3-h4 Nd7-e5 Bf3-e2)
-3.19/27 50} Nde5 7. Be2 {(Bf3-e2 Nc6-b4 d2-d3) -3.25/27 13} Nb4 8. d4
{(d2-d4 c5xd4 e3xd4) -3.39/30 57} cxd4 9. exd4 {(e3xd4 Ne5xc4 Qd1-a4+)
-3.36/32 18} Nxc4 10. Qa4+ {(Qd1-a4+ Qc8-c6 Be2xc4) -3.37/31 13} Qc6 11.
Bxc4 {(Be2xc4 Qc6xa4 Nc3xa4 Nb4-c2+ Ke1-d1 Nc2xd4 Bc4-d3 d6-d5 Bc1-d2
Nd4-c6 h4-h5 Bf8-b4 Bd2-e3 O-O f2-f4 Bb4-d6 Be3-d2 Ra8-c8 Na4-c3 Bd6-c7
a2-a3 Nc6-a5 Nc3-b5 Na5-b3 Nb5xa7 Nb3xd2 Na7xc8 Rf8xc8 Kd1xd2 Bc7xf4+
Kd2-e2 Bf4xg5 Rh1-f1 Rc8-c1 Rf1xc1) -3.46/31 18} Nc2+ 12. Kd1 {(Ke1-d1
Qc6xa4 Nc3xa4) -3.43/31 14} Qxa4 13. Nxa4 {(Nc3xa4 Nc2xd4 Bc4-d3) -3.49/29
15} Nxd4 14. Bd3 {(Bc4-d3 d6-d5 h4-h5) -3.48/29 12} Nc6 15. f4 {(f2-f4
d6-d5 Na4-c3) -3.45/27 15} d5 *[/pgn]

[Chessqueen]

Well done, even early on you could have traded your Bishop for Lco Knight on f3 after 5. Be2...5.BxNf3, and place your Knight on c6 after the exchange, with a Rook Odds the earlier you trade the less your opponent Engine has a chance of using his tactical superiority. Also on move 22....Rxh2+, well thinking it over it was NOT a bad move or blunder, but move 23......Rc8? was not such a good move, I believe that after 23. Kf3 a better move is 23.....Kxe6 and this is how I played it versus Komodo Dragon 2.6.1. A Rook Odds is too much of a handicap, as long as you trade pieces whenever you can to avoid the engine to use its tactical superiority, unless you are a Master with much better tactical capability than a 1750 or 1800 player than you can play a la par without having to trade pieces early against Komodo Dragon; and find other ways to win and avoid tactical oversight

Note: And for those that said previously that I was wasting my money paying an IM to train me online, all that I can say is that $30.00 per 30 minutes training section is NOT really much, and during the Covi19 when most of us were inside of our home, to me it was the best investment that I could have ever done in my life. My chess.com new rating is above 1770 and I know deep in my mind that I had NOT wasted my money to get 18 months of training online, doing 2 to three section of 30 minutes per week. You are welcome to Crush me in Chess simply invite me to play against you, https://www.chess.com/game/live/43725925907

[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "MININT-UB2PIMJ"]
[Date "2022.04.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dragon-2.6.1-64bit-avx2"]
[Black "ChessQueenr"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "2400"]
[Time "12:05:07"]
[WhiteElo "3600"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r6r/pp2k1p1/3bPpp1/nB6/6P1/2P1B3/P4PKP/3R4 b - - 3 1"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. ... Rxh2+ 2. Kf3 Kxe6 3. Re1 Be5 4. Rd1 a6 5. Bd3 f5 6. gxf5+ gxf5 7.
Bb6 Nc6 8. Bc4+ Ke7 9. Ke2 Bxc3 10. Bd5 Re8 11. Kf1 Be5 12. Re1 Kd6 13. Rd1
Rc8 14. Bf3+ Ke6 15. Be3 Kf6 16. Bb6 g5 17. Bg2 Kg6 18. Bd5 Nb4 19. Bxb7
Rb8 20. Bxa6 Rh1+ 21. Ke2 Rxd1 22. Kxd1 Nxa6 23. Ba7 Rd8+ 24. Kc2 {White
resigns}[/pgn]

[pepechuy]

Well done, even early on you could have traded your Bishop for Lco Knight on f3 after 5. Be2...5.BxNf3, and place your Knight on c6 after the exchange, with a Rook Odds the earlier you trade the less your opponent Engine has a chance of using his tactical superiority. Also on move 22....Rxh2+, well thinking it over it was NOT a bad move or blunder, but move 23......Rc8? was not such a good move, I believe that after 23. Kf3 a better move is 23.....Kxe6 and this is how I played it versus Komodo Dragon 2.6.1. A Rook Odds is too much of a handicap, as long as you trade pieces whenever you can to avoid the engine to use its tactical superiority, unless you are a Master with much better tactical capability than a 1750 or 1800 player than you can play a la par without having to trade pieces early against Komodo Dragon; and find other ways to win and avoid tactical oversight

Note: And for those that said previously that I was wasting my money paying an IM to train me online, all that I can say is that $30.00 per 30 minutes training section is NOT really much, and during the Covi19 when most of us were inside of our home, to me it was the best investment that I could have ever done in my life. My chess.com new rating is above 1770 and I know deep in my mind that I had NOT wasted my money to get 18 months of training online, doing 2 to three section of 30 minutes per week. You are welcome to Crush me in Chess simply invite me to play against you, https://www.chess.com/game/live/43725925907

[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "MININT-UB2PIMJ"]
[Date "2022.04.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dragon-2.6.1-64bit-avx2"]
[Black "ChessQueenr"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "2400"]
[Time "12:05:07"]
[WhiteElo "3600"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r6r/pp2k1p1/3bPpp1/nB6/6P1/2P1B3/P4PKP/3R4 b - - 3 1"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. ... Rxh2+ 2. Kf3 Kxe6 3. Re1 Be5 4. Rd1 a6 5. Bd3 f5 6. gxf5+ gxf5 7.
Bb6 Nc6 8. Bc4+ Ke7 9. Ke2 Bxc3 10. Bd5 Re8 11. Kf1 Be5 12. Re1 Kd6 13. Rd1
Rc8 14. Bf3+ Ke6 15. Be3 Kf6 16. Bb6 g5 17. Bg2 Kg6 18. Bd5 Nb4 19. Bxb7
Rb8 20. Bxa6 Rh1+ 21. Ke2 Rxd1 22. Kxd1 Nxa6 23. Ba7 Rd8+ 24. Kc2 {White
resigns}[/pgn]

Hi.

Actually, I played 3... d6 and 4... Bg4 in order to exchange my bishop for the f3 knight. I just did not see the need to do it immediately.
As for 23... Rc8, the other move I mainly considered during the game was 23... Rah8.

Paying a coach to train you is not a waste of money.
¡But you also need to do the hard work in order to improve! (hiring the best coach is not enough).

Greetings.

[Chessqueen]

Well done, even early on you could have traded your Bishop for Lco Knight on f3 after 5. Be2...5.BxNf3, and place your Knight on c6 after the exchange, with a Rook Odds the earlier you trade the less your opponent Engine has a chance of using his tactical superiority. Also on move 22....Rxh2+, well thinking it over it was NOT a bad move or blunder, but move 23......Rc8? was not such a good move, I believe that after 23. Kf3 a better move is 23.....Kxe6 and this is how I played it versus Komodo Dragon 2.6.1. A Rook Odds is too much of a handicap, as long as you trade pieces whenever you can to avoid the engine to use its tactical superiority, unless you are a Master with much better tactical capability than a 1750 or 1800 player than you can play a la par without having to trade pieces early against Komodo Dragon; and find other ways to win and avoid tactical oversight

Note: And for those that said previously that I was wasting my money paying an IM to train me online, all that I can say is that $30.00 per 30 minutes training section is NOT really much, and during the Covi19 when most of us were inside of our home, to me it was the best investment that I could have ever done in my life. My chess.com new rating is above 1770 and I know deep in my mind that I had NOT wasted my money to get 18 months of training online, doing 2 to three section of 30 minutes per week. You are welcome to Crush me in Chess simply invite me to play against you, https://www.chess.com/game/live/43725925907

[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "MININT-UB2PIMJ"]
[Date "2022.04.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dragon-2.6.1-64bit-avx2"]
[Black "ChessQueenr"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "2400"]
[Time "12:05:07"]
[WhiteElo "3600"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r6r/pp2k1p1/3bPpp1/nB6/6P1/2P1B3/P4PKP/3R4 b - - 3 1"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. ... Rxh2+ 2. Kf3 Kxe6 3. Re1 Be5 4. Rd1 a6 5. Bd3 f5 6. gxf5+ gxf5 7.
Bb6 Nc6 8. Bc4+ Ke7 9. Ke2 Bxc3 10. Bd5 Re8 11. Kf1 Be5 12. Re1 Kd6 13. Rd1
Rc8 14. Bf3+ Ke6 15. Be3 Kf6 16. Bb6 g5 17. Bg2 Kg6 18. Bd5 Nb4 19. Bxb7
Rb8 20. Bxa6 Rh1+ 21. Ke2 Rxd1 22. Kxd1 Nxa6 23. Ba7 Rd8+ 24. Kc2 {White
resigns}[/pgn]

Hi.

Actually, I played 3... d6 and 4... Bg4 in order to exchange my bishop for the f3 knight. I just did not see the need to do it immediately.
As for 23... Rc8, the other move I mainly considered during the game was 23... Rah8.

Paying a coach to train you is not a waste of money.
¡But you also need to do the hard work in order to improve! (hiring the best coach is not enough).

Greetings.

I am glad that you and most of this forum members realize that training with a coach alone will not alone make your a better chess player, when I got in touch with my online trainer the first thing that he said to me is my training will help you at least 50% to obtain your goal of increasing at least 450 rating points or more in 18 months but he also told me that he would assign different books on middlegames and at least 2 on endings, and that each week he would assign 14 pages to read and to learn it good, at the end of each week he would pick 10 of those positions and for each position when we meet every Saturday that I only have 3 to 5 seconds to give him the answer. Then he asked me what was my educational level and I asked him why, and he said to me it is irrelevant to chess, but it will show me that at least when I study computer programming back in 1980 languages such as Assembler ( Machine language, Cobol 1, Cobol II, Pascal, Fortran, RPG, C and C++ ) and also later on I studied Accounting such as accounting 1, Accounting 2, Cost Accounting and all other subjects to become an accountant. That for all those subjects I had to study at least 3 to 4 hours in order to pass them, chess is a little different and there are lots of professionals here on this forum that know that just because they have different degrees, it is does not necessarily make them better at chess than a 13 or 14 years old chess prodigy, but what he assured me that with dedication and assigning at least 2 hours daily to read what he assigns me and to pass at least 8 out of his 10 positions that he randomly pick form those pages that he assigns me, that I would achieve and I have already achieve what I wanted at first and it was to increase my rating from 1300 to at least 1750, I have not participated in any tournaments for the last 2 years, but according to my trainer when he match me against other of his online students I am at least 1750 to 1800. I started to play on chess.com in the last 5 weeks and so far my rating is 1767, which is about what my online trainer kept telling me lately. ==> https://www.chess.com/game/live/43958180629

[pepechuy]

Hi.

The second game against Stockfish, removing the h1 rook.
I deviated from the previous game with 3... Bf5 (instead of 3... c6).
Another win for me.
I got into some trouble (poorly defended pieces), but was able to get out of it losing only a couple of pawns.
I felt confident about the win when it played 38. Ba3, but even before I was optimistic (since 32... a5, activating my rook without moving it).

[pgn]
[Event "banksia game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2022.04.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Stockfish 14"]
[Black "hm::Garcia Ruvalcaba, Jose de Jesus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "3500"]
[Time "20:23:22"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBN1 w Qkq - 0 1"]
[Termination "mate"]

1. d4 {-7.61/24 31199 19948245} 1... Nf6 2. Bg5 {-7.46/25 51572 32071645} 2...
d5 3. Nc3 {-7.46/25 8202 18019455} 3... Bf5 4. e3 {-7.30/26 15947 10339651} 4...
e6 5. Bd3 {-7.23/27 28143 17514165} 5... Bxd3 6. cxd3 {-7.87/28 148424
109574694} 6... c6 7. Nf3 {-7.00/29 21931 15481547} 7... Be7 8. Kf1 {-7.23/25
30943 20439252} 8... Nbd7 9. h3 {-7.69/28 90878 58947692} 9... O-O 10. Kg1
{-7.61/27 24910 28733368} 10... c5 11. Ne2 {-7.57/29 44145 47913619} 11... cxd4
12. Nexd4 {-7.61/26 20842 16255748} 12... Rc8 13. Bf4 {-7.93/31 138736
105069389} 13... Qb6 14. a4 {-7.91/28 55242 35833905} 14... Qxb2 15. Rb1
{-7.99/31 13966 43938469} 15... Qc3 16. Rxb7 {-7.74/26 12730 10319769} 16... Qc1
17. Qxc1 {-7.38/26 10071 8574725} 17... Rxc1+ 18. Kh2 {-7.38/32 15584 16349842}
18... Bc5 19. Nc6 {-7.23/27 15175 12809921} 19... Ra1 20. d4 {-7.53/29 41027
32498142} 20... Bb6 21. g4 {-6.24/29 20755 14161255} 21... h6 22. g5 {-6.46/31
36028 20916113} 22... hxg5 23. Bd6 {-6.48/32 13775 13247096} 23... Ra8 24. Nxg5
{-6.62/28 17639 16248686} 24... Rxa4 25. Ne7+ {-7.00/33 2375 91168146} 25... Kf8
26. Nxd5+ {-6.92/31 24364 28614956} 26... Ke8 27. Nxf6+ {-6.89/28 7245 11354853}
27... gxf6 28. Nxf7 {-7.07/30 7945 39426666} 28... Kxf7 29. Rxd7+ {-7.23/29 5984
28530029} 29... Kg6 30. Re7 {-7.43/35 172549 193269213} 30... Rc4 31. Kg1
{-7.45/32 10 23266626} 31... Rc6 32. Ba3 {-7.46/26 9506 9974234} 32... a5 33.
Kg2 {-7.75/31 8625 60091551} 33... a4 34. h4 {-7.84/26 16498 16292069} 34... Bd8
35. Re8 {-7.00/30 8268 8455752} 35... Rc3 36. Bb4 {-6.69/28 26109 21951635}
36... Rb3 37. Bd6 {-6.92/31 39099 36460626} 37... a3 38. Bxa3 {-5.66/26 3460
3979765} 38... Rbxa3 39. Rxe6 {-5.69/29 1114 6301770} 39... Kf7 40. Rd6
{-5.84/28 12997 15211623} 40... Be7 41. Rb6 {-5.86/29 10399 11973399} 41... Ra2
42. Rb7 {-6.50/29 36435 43955907} 42... R8a7 43. Rxa7 {-5.59/24 2324 3389994}
43... Rxa7 44. Kg3 {-6.72/25 11312 20899069} 44... Ra2 45. e4 {-7.77/23 2690
21128202} 45... Rd2 46. h5 {-7.25/24 26225 37706790} 46... Rxd4 47. Kf3
{-68.72/31 10393 18700971} 47... Kg7 48. Kf4 {-70.24/31 4997 8555689} 48... Kh6
49. Kf5 {-55.04/33 2678 4541632} 49... Kxh5 50. Kf4 {M-26/36 22790 47908290}
50... Kg6 51. Ke3 {M-18/34 1173 2019275} 51... Ra4 52. Kd3 {M-15/35 251 7797634}
52... Bc5 53. f4 {M-14/35 2543 4185587} 53... Bd6 54. Ke3 {M-12/38 3002
10399377} 54... Ra3+ 55. Kd4 {M-13/39 5830 10109156} 55... Bxf4 56. Kc5 {M-12/40
5524 10190972} 56... Rd3 57. Kc4 {M-12/43 6457 11634554} 57... Rd8 58. Kc5
{M-11/40 6842 11905111} 58... Kf7 59. Kb4 {M-12/41 7620 13230572} 59... Rc8 60.
Kb3 {M-10/43 7965 14538658} 60... Ke6 61. Kb4 {M-8/44 9345 18237231} 61... Ke5
62. Kb5 {M-7/54 8036 16840132} 62... Kd4 63. Kb6 {M-7/52 7657 16160906} 63...
Kc4 64. e5 {M-6/77 7647 22018205} 64... fxe5 65. Kb7 {M-6/109 7867 22194944}
65... Rc5 66. Ka8 {M-5/245 10 14789787} 66... Rb5 67. Ka7 {M-5/62 502 1476032}
67... Kc5 68. Ka6 {M-4/245 458 1213617} 68... Kc6 69. Ka7 {M-3/245 64 18127}
69... Kc7 70. Ka6 {M-2/245 51 8172} 70... Rc5 71. Ka7 {M-1/245 10 490} 71...
Ra5# 0-1
[/pgn]

The next game is against Komodo, removing the a1 rook.

Greetings.

[Chessqueen]

Quieres jugar con Komodo Dragon 2.6.1 ? You already played versus Komodo 12.1 removing the a1 Rook. Try with a newer version of Komodo.

[pgn]
[Event "banksia game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2022.03.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Komodo 12.1.1 64-bit"]
[Black "hm::Garcia Ruvalcaba, Jose de Jesus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "3500"]
[Time "16:13:06"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]
[Termination "mate"]

1. e4 {-3.29/23 38935 32459719} 1... e5 2. Nf3 {-3.32/23 21324 30474735} 2...
Nf6 3. Nxe5 {-3.30/24 40350 37965178} 3... d6 4. Nf3 {-3.33/24 32901 30090886}
4... Nxe4 5. d4 {-3.39/24 44043 50635564} 5... d5 6. Bd3 {-3.48/25 56249
44633704} 6... Be7 7. O-O {-3.56/26 123311 102591963} 7... Nc6 8. Nc3 {-3.68/23
76097 66103150} 8... Nf6 9. h3 {-3.29/22 32351 27703355} 9... Be6 10. Ne2
{-3.16/24 47434 44305809} 10... Qd7 11. Re1 {-2.87/22 43948 42436002} 11...
O-O-O 12. Bb5 {-2.66/21 24401 21176600} 12... Ne4 13. Ne5 {-2.19/23 39974
40094952} 13... Qe8 14. Bxc6 {-2.27/22 25053 28176038} 14... bxc6 15. f3
{-2.39/24 61152 63586519} 15... Nd6 16. Nf4 {-2.60/21 18715 22828372} 16... Nc4
17. Ned3 {-2.28/23 23603 23351474} 17... Qd7 18. b3 {-1.57/23 30671 32038766}
18... Nb6 19. a4 {-1.83/22 24718 27337945} 19... Kb8 20. Ne5 {-1.88/23 25211
28012202} 20... Qd6 21. Bd2 {-2.00/26 10 38515090} 21... Bf6 22. Bb4 {+0.00/26
29258 30531185} 22... Bxe5 23. Bxd6 {+0.00/28 10 22930531} 23... Bxd6 24. Nxe6
{+0.00/26 5322 8478374} 24... fxe6 25. Qd3 {+0.00/28 23484 26353191} 25... Rde8
26. Qc3 {+0.53/25 27993 29251195} 26... Kb7 27. a5 {+0.75/28 27220 29730276}
27... Nd7 28. a6+ {+0.61/28 5326 48335680} 28... Kb6 29. Ra1 {+8.39/26 22596
24617167} 29... c5 30. Qa5+ {M+6/29 2249 5243648} 30... Kc6 31. Qa4+ {M+5/50 426
5499582} 31... Kb6 32. c4 {M+4/99 10 887017} 32... cxd4 33. Qb5# {M+1/99 27
2376} 1-0
[/pgn]

[Chessqueen]

You already played versus Komodo 12.1 removing the a1 Rook. Try with a newer version of Komodo. I believe that you should try playing against skill level 18 versus Komodo 12.1.1 which is rated about 1800.

[pgn]
[Event "banksia game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2022.03.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Komodo 12.1.1 64-bit"]
[Black "hm::Garcia Ruvalcaba, Jose de Jesus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "3500"]
[Time "16:13:06"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]
[Termination "mate"]

1. e4 {-3.29/23 38935 32459719} 1... e5 2. Nf3 {-3.32/23 21324 30474735} 2...
Nf6 3. Nxe5 {-3.30/24 40350 37965178} 3... d6 4. Nf3 {-3.33/24 32901 30090886}
4... Nxe4 5. d4 {-3.39/24 44043 50635564} 5... d5 6. Bd3 {-3.48/25 56249
44633704} 6... Be7 7. O-O {-3.56/26 123311 102591963} 7... Nc6 8. Nc3 {-3.68/23
76097 66103150} 8... Nf6 9. h3 {-3.29/22 32351 27703355} 9... Be6 10. Ne2
{-3.16/24 47434 44305809} 10... Qd7 11. Re1 {-2.87/22 43948 42436002} 11...
O-O-O 12. Bb5 {-2.66/21 24401 21176600} 12... Ne4 13. Ne5 {-2.19/23 39974
40094952} 13... Qe8 14. Bxc6 {-2.27/22 25053 28176038} 14... bxc6 15. f3
{-2.39/24 61152 63586519} 15... Nd6 16. Nf4 {-2.60/21 18715 22828372} 16... Nc4
17. Ned3 {-2.28/23 23603 23351474} 17... Qd7 18. b3 {-1.57/23 30671 32038766}
18... Nb6 19. a4 {-1.83/22 24718 27337945} 19... Kb8 20. Ne5 {-1.88/23 25211
28012202} 20... Qd6 21. Bd2 {-2.00/26 10 38515090} 21... Bf6 22. Bb4 {+0.00/26
29258 30531185} 22... Bxe5 23. Bxd6 {+0.00/28 10 22930531} 23... Bxd6 24. Nxe6
{+0.00/26 5322 8478374} 24... fxe6 25. Qd3 {+0.00/28 23484 26353191} 25... Rde8
26. Qc3 {+0.53/25 27993 29251195} 26... Kb7 27. a5 {+0.75/28 27220 29730276}
27... Nd7 28. a6+ {+0.61/28 5326 48335680} 28... Kb6 29. Ra1 {+8.39/26 22596
24617167} 29... c5 30. Qa5+ {M+6/29 2249 5243648} 30... Kc6 31. Qa4+ {M+5/50 426
5499582} 31... Kb6 32. c4 {M+4/99 10 887017} 32... cxd4 33. Qb5# {M+1/99 27
2376} 1-0
[/pgn]

This is against Elo = 1800 or in Komodo Dragon 2.6.1 under Levels, I set the Limit Playing strength to Elo = 1800
[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "MININT-UB2PIMJ"]
[Date "2022.04.18"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dragon-2.6.1-64bit-avx2"]
[Black "ChessQueen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1790"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Opening "Four Knights"]
[Time "01:14:57"]
[Variation "4.Bb5 Bb4"]
[WhiteElo "1800"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. Nxe5 Bxc3 7. bxc3
Nxe4 8. Qe2 Bf5 9. f3 Qh4+ 10. Kf1 Ng3+ 11. hxg3 Qxh1+ 12. Kf2 O-O 13. Bb2
Qh6 14. c4 f6 15. Nd3 Rfe8 16. Qd1 Rad8 17. Bc3 Qg5 18. Nf4 c5 19. Qb1 b6
20. d3 Rd7 21. Qb2 Rde7 22. Rh1 Bg6 23. a4 a5 24. Bd2 Re2+ 25. Nxe2 Qxd2
26. Re1 Bxd3 27. g4 Bxc4 28. Qa1 Rxe2+ 29. Rxe2 Qxe2+ 30. Kg1 Qxc2 31. g5
fxg5 32. Kh1 Bb3 33. Qe1 Qd1 34. Qxd1 Bxd1 35. Kh2 c4 36. f4 c3 37. Kh3 c2
38. fxg5 {White resigns} *[/pgn]

[Chessqueen]

You already played versus Komodo 12.1 removing the a1 Rook. Try with a newer version of Komodo. I believe that you should try playing against skill level 18 versus Komodo 12.1.1 which is rated about 1800.
[pgn]
[Event "banksia game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2022.03.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Komodo 12.1.1 64-bit"]
[Black "hm::Garcia Ruvalcaba, Jose de Jesus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "3500"]
[Time "16:13:06"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]
[Termination "mate"]

1. e4 {-3.29/23 38935 32459719} 1... e5 2. Nf3 {-3.32/23 21324 30474735} 2...
Nf6 3. Nxe5 {-3.30/24 40350 37965178} 3... d6 4. Nf3 {-3.33/24 32901 30090886}
4... Nxe4 5. d4 {-3.39/24 44043 50635564} 5... d5 6. Bd3 {-3.48/25 56249
44633704} 6... Be7 7. O-O {-3.56/26 123311 102591963} 7... Nc6 8. Nc3 {-3.68/23
76097 66103150} 8... Nf6 9. h3 {-3.29/22 32351 27703355} 9... Be6 10. Ne2
{-3.16/24 47434 44305809} 10... Qd7 11. Re1 {-2.87/22 43948 42436002} 11...
O-O-O 12. Bb5 {-2.66/21 24401 21176600} 12... Ne4 13. Ne5 {-2.19/23 39974
40094952} 13... Qe8 14. Bxc6 {-2.27/22 25053 28176038} 14... bxc6 15. f3
{-2.39/24 61152 63586519} 15... Nd6 16. Nf4 {-2.60/21 18715 22828372} 16... Nc4
17. Ned3 {-2.28/23 23603 23351474} 17... Qd7 18. b3 {-1.57/23 30671 32038766}
18... Nb6 19. a4 {-1.83/22 24718 27337945} 19... Kb8 20. Ne5 {-1.88/23 25211
28012202} 20... Qd6 21. Bd2 {-2.00/26 10 38515090} 21... Bf6 22. Bb4 {+0.00/26
29258 30531185} 22... Bxe5 23. Bxd6 {+0.00/28 10 22930531} 23... Bxd6 24. Nxe6
{+0.00/26 5322 8478374} 24... fxe6 25. Qd3 {+0.00/28 23484 26353191} 25... Rde8
26. Qc3 {+0.53/25 27993 29251195} 26... Kb7 27. a5 {+0.75/28 27220 29730276}
27... Nd7 28. a6+ {+0.61/28 5326 48335680} 28... Kb6 29. Ra1 {+8.39/26 22596
24617167} 29... c5 30. Qa5+ {M+6/29 2249 5243648} 30... Kc6 31. Qa4+ {M+5/50 426
5499582} 31... Kb6 32. c4 {M+4/99 10 887017} 32... cxd4 33. Qb5# {M+1/99 27
2376} 1-0
[/pgn]

This is against Elo = 1805 or in Komodo Dragon 2.6.1 under Levels, I set the Limit Playing strength to Elo = 1805
[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "MININT-UB2PIMJ"]
[Date "2022.04.18"]
[Round "2"]
[White "ChessQueen"]
[Black "Dragon-2.6.1-64bit-avx2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1805"]
[ECO "B20"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Time "05:34:04"]
[Variation "English, 2...Nc6 3.Nc3 g6"]
[WhiteElo "1800"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "program"]

1. e4 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Nf3 d6 6. d3 Rb8 7. Be3 Bg4 8.
Be2 a6 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 b5 11. O-O b4 12. Qa4 Qd7 13. Nd5 e6 14. Nf4
Bxb2 15. Rab1 Bd4 16. Qxa6 Nge7 17. Rbe1 O-O 18. Qa4 Ra8 19. Qc2 Ra3 20.
Re2 Ne5 21. Bg2 Bxe3 22. fxe3 N7c6 23. Rd2 Rfa8 24. Rb1 Rxa2 25. Qxa2 Rxa2
26. Rxa2 Qb7 27. Rb3 Qb6 28. Ra8+ Kg7 29. h4 Ng4 30. Bf3 Nxe3 31. Rb2 Nd4
32. Kf2 Nec2 33. Ne2 b3 34. Nxd4 cxd4 35. Ra4 h5 36. Bd1 Ne3 37. Bf3 d5 38.
exd5 exd5 39. cxd5 Qc5 40. Ra1 Qc3 41. Rab1 Qxd3 42. d6 Nc4 43. d7 Nxb2 44.
Rxb2 Qe3+ 45. Kg2 Qe7 46. Bc6 Qd6 47. Ba4 d3 48. Rxb3 Qd5+ 49. Kh2 Qd4 50.
Rb8 Qf2+ 51. Kh3 Qf1+ 52. Kh2 Qe2+ 53. Kh3 Qe1 54. Bc6 Qf1+ 55. Kh2 d2 56.
d8=Q Qf2+ 57. Bg2 g5 58. Qg8+ Kf6 59. Qxg5+ Ke6 60. Re8+ Kd7 61. Qe7# 1-0[/pgn]

[pepechuy]

Quieres jugar con Komodo Dragon 2.6.1 ? You already played versus Komodo 12.1 removing the a1 Rook. Try with a newer version of Komodo.

Hi.

I did, and I lost.
¡I will keep playing, until I win!

I am facing the engines that are directly available within BanksiaGUI.
Since Dragon does not appear there, I do not play against it.
I do not have time to play against all the engines in the world.

Greetings.

[pepechuy]

You already played versus Komodo 12.1 removing the a1 Rook. Try with a newer version of Komodo. I believe that you should try playing against skill level 18 versus Komodo 12.1.1 which is rated about 1800.
[pgn]
[Event "banksia game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2022.03.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Komodo 12.1.1 64-bit"]
[Black "hm::Garcia Ruvalcaba, Jose de Jesus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "3500"]
[Time "16:13:06"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]
[Termination "mate"]

1. e4 {-3.29/23 38935 32459719} 1... e5 2. Nf3 {-3.32/23 21324 30474735} 2...
Nf6 3. Nxe5 {-3.30/24 40350 37965178} 3... d6 4. Nf3 {-3.33/24 32901 30090886}
4... Nxe4 5. d4 {-3.39/24 44043 50635564} 5... d5 6. Bd3 {-3.48/25 56249
44633704} 6... Be7 7. O-O {-3.56/26 123311 102591963} 7... Nc6 8. Nc3 {-3.68/23
76097 66103150} 8... Nf6 9. h3 {-3.29/22 32351 27703355} 9... Be6 10. Ne2
{-3.16/24 47434 44305809} 10... Qd7 11. Re1 {-2.87/22 43948 42436002} 11...
O-O-O 12. Bb5 {-2.66/21 24401 21176600} 12... Ne4 13. Ne5 {-2.19/23 39974
40094952} 13... Qe8 14. Bxc6 {-2.27/22 25053 28176038} 14... bxc6 15. f3
{-2.39/24 61152 63586519} 15... Nd6 16. Nf4 {-2.60/21 18715 22828372} 16... Nc4
17. Ned3 {-2.28/23 23603 23351474} 17... Qd7 18. b3 {-1.57/23 30671 32038766}
18... Nb6 19. a4 {-1.83/22 24718 27337945} 19... Kb8 20. Ne5 {-1.88/23 25211
28012202} 20... Qd6 21. Bd2 {-2.00/26 10 38515090} 21... Bf6 22. Bb4 {+0.00/26
29258 30531185} 22... Bxe5 23. Bxd6 {+0.00/28 10 22930531} 23... Bxd6 24. Nxe6
{+0.00/26 5322 8478374} 24... fxe6 25. Qd3 {+0.00/28 23484 26353191} 25... Rde8
26. Qc3 {+0.53/25 27993 29251195} 26... Kb7 27. a5 {+0.75/28 27220 29730276}
27... Nd7 28. a6+ {+0.61/28 5326 48335680} 28... Kb6 29. Ra1 {+8.39/26 22596
24617167} 29... c5 30. Qa5+ {M+6/29 2249 5243648} 30... Kc6 31. Qa4+ {M+5/50 426
5499582} 31... Kb6 32. c4 {M+4/99 10 887017} 32... cxd4 33. Qb5# {M+1/99 27
2376} 1-0
[/pgn]

This is against Elo = 1805 or in Komodo Dragon 2.6.1 under Levels, I set the Limit Playing strength to Elo = 1805
[pgn][Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "MININT-UB2PIMJ"]
[Date "2022.04.18"]
[Round "2"]
[White "ChessQueen"]
[Black "Dragon-2.6.1-64bit-avx2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1805"]
[ECO "B20"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Time "05:34:04"]
[Variation "English, 2...Nc6 3.Nc3 g6"]
[WhiteElo "1800"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "program"]

1. e4 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Nf3 d6 6. d3 Rb8 7. Be3 Bg4 8.
Be2 a6 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 b5 11. O-O b4 12. Qa4 Qd7 13. Nd5 e6 14. Nf4
Bxb2 15. Rab1 Bd4 16. Qxa6 Nge7 17. Rbe1 O-O 18. Qa4 Ra8 19. Qc2 Ra3 20.
Re2 Ne5 21. Bg2 Bxe3 22. fxe3 N7c6 23. Rd2 Rfa8 24. Rb1 Rxa2 25. Qxa2 Rxa2
26. Rxa2 Qb7 27. Rb3 Qb6 28. Ra8+ Kg7 29. h4 Ng4 30. Bf3 Nxe3 31. Rb2 Nd4
32. Kf2 Nec2 33. Ne2 b3 34. Nxd4 cxd4 35. Ra4 h5 36. Bd1 Ne3 37. Bf3 d5 38.
exd5 exd5 39. cxd5 Qc5 40. Ra1 Qc3 41. Rab1 Qxd3 42. d6 Nc4 43. d7 Nxb2 44.
Rxb2 Qe3+ 45. Kg2 Qe7 46. Bc6 Qd6 47. Ba4 d3 48. Rxb3 Qd5+ 49. Kh2 Qd4 50.
Rb8 Qf2+ 51. Kh3 Qf1+ 52. Kh2 Qe2+ 53. Kh3 Qe1 54. Bc6 Qf1+ 55. Kh2 d2 56.
d8=Q Qf2+ 57. Bg2 g5 58. Qg8+ Kf6 59. Qxg5+ Ke6 60. Re8+ Kd7 61. Qe7# 1-0[/pgn]

Hi.

Some UCI engines have the options "UCI_Limit Strenght" and "UCI_Elo", but I do not see it in Komodo.
It is also interesting, but I think a large number of games is needed to estimate the strength of the human players relative to the arbitrary scale of each engine (I doubt they are accurate).

Actually, if I were training beginners, I would let them play against engines with material odds AND limited strength.

Greetings.

P.S. Komodo 1805 should have taken the perpetual.