Hey... A win is a win..! Enjoy!

Come on guys, you don't see it?

i dont know wt to say, ure a genuis! ;D

Thanks for the post; very instructive. I'm afraid its a case of the blind leading the blind (I'm an aspirational 1550), but I think the error in the opening is 10 d5 - less a case of premature but rather not the right idea. 

The effect is to lock up both the centre and Q-side, and invite Black's N(c) across to the King-side to make hay. As it was, White could not counter through the Q-side or centre, and so was forced to play K-side defence (which I thought U did pretty well). 

10: Bg6 is 'natural', but it would be worth trying Be3 followed by Nd2 and Bb3.  White's bishop on B3 would lay claim to a powerful diagonal, lost to White by 10. d5.

Don't you see it , it's forced mate in 50 for white :P

Thanks for ditching math!

PrideNSorrow> Does Rybka assume I'm a genius or is this somehow calculated from our previous games (errantly)??

 

These sound like bugs in the Arena GUI, not in the Rybka engine.

 

PrideNSorrow> In the screenshot, you'll notice that black resigns??! I don't know if I accidentally forced it to resign as there's definitely no way my game was dominating by any means. Also, "Arena Adjudication, illegal move!" .... I don't know, I'm guessing it just freaked out and broke. Oh and I'm definitely not 2350 ELO....

 

Arena does the same thing on my system. A work-around is to save the position, restart Arena, and then load the position again. Remember it's freeware--you're getting something for nothing. If you want a no-hassle option, consider purchasing the Fritz or Chessbase interfaces, which also allow you to plug-in Rybka. Those tend to be much more stable as long as you set the engines to use the correct amount of RAM.