Idiot 1 - Computer 0 ... Latvian Counter Gambit

Yes I have beaten the £10 Excalibur computer!! the line is quite interesting so I thought I'd post it.

I'm black - computer has 15 sec per move.

there was no cheating in the first game either 🙂 a tiny bit in the second... I think the Excalibur plays quite well, I don't often see computers play loosing attacks but its a nice playing style.

I''ve got 2 games in this opening running on here now.

If I do say so my self 😏 these 2 games are rather good

if you are graded less then 1500 they are good tactics lessons, why I posted them, realise they might be chess 101 for some of the stronger players here.

you were supposed to say yes e4chris, those are very interesting games, here is one of mine. 🙂

I am trying this line out against the much stronger Saitek and it is a real headache it plays very similar to the second game, playing d4 to protect the knight but after I play d6 it attacks with the queen on h5, it might have a glitch here too. but it won the first game easily...

yes e4chris, those are very interesting games, here is one of mine.

Originally posted by Trev33
yes e4chris, those are very interesting games, here is one of mine.

its an interesting line and I can't remember the last time I saw anyone play it, I've never seen it in a chess club...

Computer 1

Originally posted by e4chris
Computer 1

[pgn]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Qe7 4.d4 d6 5.Qh5+ g6 6.Nxg6 Qxe4+ 7.Be2 Nf6 8.Qh3 hxg6 9.Qxh8 Qxg2 10.Rf1 Ng4 11.Bg5 Nd7 12.Qg8 Nde5[/pgn]

Last move is forced - Saitek at 2 min per move... any tips welcome... 11 ng4? at the rook sac it only put me down -0.4 so maybe I lost after that...

edit the more I play it the more rubbish it gets! 🙁

Originally posted by e4chris
I bet you lot are to mean to share your tricks!

Originally posted by RJHinds
I think I would have tried 8...Rg8. Also instead of 10...Ng4 maybe developing the queenside pieces with a hope of castling may have worked out better. 10...Kf7 might be considered too.

The Instructor

Originally posted by e4chris
I will try that thanks... I can take c2 on move 9 too but I suspect the computer will smash my position if I do...

Have you beaten Houdini yet?

I'm sure it will have an opening weakness somewhere....

Saitek almost down!! Look what an evil computer it is, I was a piece up and it still swindles a win.

Saitek Master 20 sec pm ps0

Incidentally I am not playing any games on rhp in the line the computers are using, no one is playing against the Saitek! 🙂 - both play this with enough time and both only have up to 3 Nxe5 in there opening book, the rest is calculated.