Following a few defeats against a friend at work recently I decided it’s time I started putting some work into playing chess once more. I have Chessmaster up and running on my home computer and had a “proper” game against it tonight.
I started okay, but lost my way on the way out of the opening, and got into serious trouble. Thankfully the computer made a mistake late on and I capitalised. I managed to weather the early storm from the computer, but at the expense of time. My last 10 moves were made within about 10 seconds
Here’s the PGN of the game (you can load PGN data into most chess software to view the game).
[Event “Chessmaster 10th Edition Rated Game”]
[Site “”]
[Date “2005.7.27”]
[Round “”]
[White “Jon Beckett”]
[Black “Eric”]
[TimeControl “600”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “oft “]
1.e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3.
Bb5 a6 4.
Ba4 Bc5 5.
Nc3 Kf8 6.a3 b5 7.
Bb3 d5 8.exd5 Nd4 9.
Nxd4 Bxd4 10.
Ne2 Bg4 11.h3 Qf6 12.f3 Bxf3 13.gxf3
Qh4+ 14.
Ng3 Qxg3+ 15.
Ke2 Qg2+ 16.
Kd3 Ba7 17.
Qf1 Qg5 18.
Ke2 e4 19.d3 exd3+ 20.cxd3 Qf5 21.
Kd1 Re8 22.
Bd2 Re3 23.
Bxe3 Bxe3 24.
Qe2
Bf2 25.
Qe4 Qd7 26.
Qb4+ Ne7 27.
Rc1 Qf5 28.
Qe4 Bg3 29.
Qxf5 Nxf5 30.
Rc6 g6 31.
Rxa6 Kg7 32.a4 bxa4 33.
Bxa4 Rd8 34.
Ra5 Rxd5 35.
Rxd5
Ne3+ 36.
Ke2 Nxd5 37.
Rg1 Be5 38.
Rg5 Bxb2 39.
Rxd5 Bf6 40.
Rc5 h5 41.
Rxc7 Be5 42.
Rc6 g5 43.
Ke3 g4 44.hxg4 hxg4 45.fxg4 Bg3 46.d4 Bh4
47.
Ke4 Bd8 48.d5 Ba5 49.d6 Bd8 50.d7 Be7 51.
Rc8 Kg6 52.d8=Q Bxd8 53.
Rxd8 Kf6 54.
Kf4 Ke6 55.
Rf8 Kd6 56.
Rxf7 Kc5 57.g5 Kb4 58.g6
Kxa4 59.g7 Kb3 60.g8=Q Kc2 61.
Qe8 Kb1 62.
Rd7 Kb2 63.
Qc8 Ka2 64.
Rb7 Ka3 65.
Qa8# 1-0