Do 900 rated players play like this usually?
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@Scottrf Your probably right just mad at myself for losing.
Not saying he didn't play well (and I only scanned over it, looks quite mistake free for a 900), but the moves look pretty natural and not too deep. I think he just had a good game (maybe a proper analysis reveals different).
thanks for the feed back but not worth reporting if it looks engine free to someone familiar with engine users.
There is no way that 900 points rated play can play like that.
Somenone was helping him, but it was not computer, I dont think that any engine would suggest ... 29.c2 and rest of the moves after that.
There is no way that 900 points rated play can play like that.
Somenone was helping him, but it was not computer, I dont think that any engine would suggest ... 29.c2 and rest of the moves after that.
I don't have much experiene playing 900 rated players, but all the moves look rather natural to me.
I don't have either, but looking at my younger son's games, who is around ~1000, there is no way for him to play like that.
This game from black's side looks more like ~1500 player to me.
Before jumping to any conclusions, look at your opponent's history. He has a live chess rating near 1300 (on-line ratings are usually higher than live chess ratings), and it appears that his on-line rating is artifically low because he has timed out in 50% of his 6 games.
Way better than 900.
After that, engine user, I don't think so. There are a few odd moves, and I suspect they are odd in the bad sense.
Most 900 rated players I played drop pieces by at least the fifteenth move it was a great game if he had no help then congrats to this player.
1) Computers do not like this type of opening; the first 15 moves are human IMHO as by that position ALMOST ALL computers would have done something "odd" and forced some pawn trades to open up the position and force a more tactical (vs positional) game. Computers excel at tactics, and tend to herd the game in that direction on purpose. I suspect move 10 would have been pawn trading instead if PC were in charge?
2) If he cheated regularly, he would not be 900 rated.
3) I think the computer would not have lost that advanced pawn so easily to your manuvering. Ne4 I think protects the advanced pawn instead of trading on move 21?
4) Not that there were no opportunities, but every move in the game felt like a knee-jerk obvious response to the positions. Computer would have found something else.
Conclusion: he was having a good day and played his own game, most likely.