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The pieces worked well together. Computer analysis disagreed.

I played a game a while back, and as I was looking it over  I wondered how well I played. Sometimes when you play a game and your opponent makes a mistake it is real easy to pat yourself on the back like you are some kind of mastermind. I know I have been guilty of this before.

However, I played a game and I thought it was decent. I think my opponent made a couple of mistakes and when I went to analyze it; the computer said I made a few mistakes and a couple of inaccuracies myself. Look at this game that I played as white and let me know what you think?

You will notice that I took the PGN right from the computer analysis. In the caption box you will see what the computer said, and then you will see my comments right afterwards.

 

Comments


  • 14 months ago

    Practicingkid

    The computer does things like this to me all the time. I submitted one of my live chess games a while ago and I was playing moves that I had memorized ahead of time from practicing grandmaster games but the computer was calling them inaccuracies and mistakes... I trust a GM over a computer any day.

    The computer analysis is not a good engine to trust to begin with anyway because any move that it wouldn't play is called a mistake but the move may not actually be a mistake but instead the fact that the computer is not very strong. 

  • 15 months ago

    netzach

    you see Malachi a computer evaluates the moves on factors such as coverage of key squares, combination of pieces, probability of opponents next move etc.

    however .....our wonderful human-brains are capable of far greater subtlety & insight than that. Also ridiculous human qualities like aesthetic appearance of the board & the pieces influence our moves & responses. And as our opponent (hopefully) is human also this is reflected in their moves too.

    that is why it takes such a complicated processor to defeat a human-being at chess & that is why such contests are unfulfilling. There is no elegance, delight or amusement in the gameplay of the chess pieces.

    if you remember this it is very easy to spot when your opponent is using a computer program ( ie. cheating !! ) against you....

  • 16 months ago

    3ptace

    I'll take a win over the opinion of a machine EVERY timeLaughing

  • 16 months ago

    ILO-PINCI

    a very sharp and destructive danish gambit . as for the computer analysis I think its a further demonstration that engines for how sophisticated may be can never be a substitute to human creativity and imagination . brillant game

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