very sharp middlegame... nice on 38. h5 as well.

This is a problem with mobile phone software too. Anything that can give even lowly me a decent game usually flattens the damn battery before you can get to an ending! 

But I love to play chess against machines like this, it takes me back to days gone, when human planning could outdo silicon calculation, not to mention the joy of discovering a well-meant but poor heuristic which could be exploited time and again in different positions. Programs like Rybka make a mockery of fuzzy thought by going ahead and calculating their way through book anyway. Grrr!

@grey_pieces: Haha, endgame tablebases! This is an extremely simple program on my Palm Pilot, written back in the rather nostalgic days when program size was very important, and the available CPU on the handheld was still extremely modest. Of the available space they had, I am guessing they spend it all on opening DBs.

Nice game. I guess it wasn't built with endgame tables or it would have avoided the simplifications at the end.

Also, getting it out of book with h4 worked for you because it wasted a tempo playing d6 then d5. Had you played 4.Bc4 instead (which is a book move) it may well have immediately returned the pawn with d7-d5.

Thanks for sharing!

@zacstev: The Queen is pinned. 

gg

hehe ozzie, 4. h4 looks pretty ugly.  It's a KG not a QG! ;-)

Good game, Ozzie.  Any chance you're in the process of revamping the opening repertoire?

nice game ozzie.  Excellent use of pins, your palm pilot was lacking in end game theory obviously.  Still, for a 5 minute game there were a lot of high quality moves. I probably would have taken your h5 pawn on move 46.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=25933900

Not that this game is anything close to yours, but im still proud of it.  I must have spent hours pouring over the tactics in it. gotta love the KG!!!