Originally posted by bobbob1056thnot Kasparov, some joke surely. A novice wouldnt play a game like that
here is a game played by kaspy and chessmaster (he lost in two moves):
[Event "Blitz"]
[Site "Linares"]
[Date "2001.02.18"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Stanley Random"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. f3 e5 2. g4 Qh4#
{Black mates} 0-1
here is the final position:
[fen]rnb1kbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/6Pq/5P2/PPPPP2P/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 3[/fen]
Seeing this game may bring another thing to mind: is it possible (likely) that Stanley the monkey could win a game like this (or at all for that matter)? After 1. f3 black can play either ...e6 or ...e5 to be able to mate after 2. g4. Since Stanley plays completely randomly, there is a 1/10 possiblity that Stanley will play one of these moves (there are 20 legal moves for black). After 2. g4 black has 30 legal moves, and only one of them is mate, so Stanley then has a 1/30 chance of mating from that position. That means if you play the worst possible moves Stanley has a 1/300 chance of winning on the second move! I wonder if anyone has ever lost a game to this monkey. (if that game were true it would mean the worst chess player in the world beat the best chess player in the world-- in 2 moves!)
I downloaded the Chessmaster Demo to test this out. Apparently Stanley has an opening book and his moves are not completely random, as the game says it is. after 1. f3 Stanley always plays a6, our first game continued: 2. g4 g6 3. a4 c5 (it seems Stanley is headed for Sicilian positions, with the exception that white has not played e4) and he eventually won in 10 moves from the starting position. However, after 1. g4 Stanley plays ...e5 followed by Qh4#.