Playing Play Magnus - approaching age eleven...

Here's a recent effort from earlier this morning, against Magnus age 9 and 10 months, on my new Android App. 

Here he would probably be rather helpless against 14. Be3 and 15. Bd4. Oh well...

Beating Magnus, age 9 and 11 months, earlier this evening - with solid strategy and some attractive tactics:

After the next update it should be FIDE 1956. 

Thanks man :-)

The last twist of the story was that I discovered a strange endgame weakness in the program (at least at the age 10 stage). 

Age 10/1 (which I beat after 14 defeats) and age 10/2 (where I only lost 2 games before winning!) played some strange inaccuracies in the opening, which gave "Magnus" the worse structure for the endgame, then didn't object too much to mass exchanges, where the ending was simply lost. 

To be fair, 10/2 (when it lost) managed to outfox me throughout the simplification phase and reach a totally winning ending (for Magnus) - only to blow it by delivering the wrong knight check at some point. This was far from obvious - but it left me wondering, how come the position I was some much in despair about just three moves earlier, suddenly became brilliantly winning... I couldn't have played/calculated that well myself, could I?

I will post that game here at some point. The wins over 10/0 and 10/1 were sadly lost (in this app, if you don't "export pgn" immediately, the game seems to be lost forever)

strange I'm probably much lower but find Magnus 9 somewhat easy. Beat Magnus 9y10m yesterday and Magnus 10 a draw against Magnus 10 not a single piece was captured (not even a pawn) draw by 3 fold repetition. I don't know how to save those games it says ''saved to clipboard'' on my phone but don't know how to retrieve it.

You're struggling to beat a 10 year old!

The way to save this game is the following:

After you get the "saved to clipboard" message, go to your email account and write an email to yourself. 

Go to the body of the email, then press long on an empty space in the email. A button will appear that will say "paste". 

You press that button, the pgn will appear inside your email. Then you can give that email a title ("beating Magnus at 12/5", or "now I almost did it", etc.) and send it. You will have the game saved. 

Well, daniel Rensch cannot beat Magnus at 12!

thx so much solskytz

Game I played yesterday (straight play no taking back moves)

I do enjoy playing against Magnus App it does feel a bit like playing against a human they did a great job althought sometimes the moves don't make much sense like in the game I posted instead of the pointless Kc2 a human would have played Rxb2 immeadiatly.

Sometimes bad moves are chosen on purpose to randomize the play and give you a chance... otherwise the program would crush us all the time. 

anyone tried the 24 y/o magnus yet?

Didn't check the app... is he there already?

Since beating 10/2 some 2-3 weeks ago, I didn't play another game - but my next opponent is 10 years, 3 months.

24 years (except when I meet the REAL 24 yo Magnus on Sunday, of course...) is still way ahead. 

Did I read that correctly? You are meeting Lord Sauron this Sunday? How?

Through the chess.com platform. He's playing a simul against 11 chess.com members, and I'm one of them. The game will take place at the Live chess area at 13:00, New York time (that's 16:33 hours into the future as I'm writing this). The time control is 25 minutes + 25 seconds per move, for all competitors, including the Champion.

Best of luck. I'll be interested to see what you play against him....only question is what will he kick off with?

Exactly what I'm asking myself :-)

For the record - yesterday I finally found the time for that first game against the 10/3 Magnus. It was a rather uneventful draw - excellent beginning!

I tried the 24-yo one and got myself within two moves of being mated by move 14. A useful experience as I later investigated the opening line and understood where I went wrong on several levels...