Finally!  Beat the Magnus Bot!

Finally! Beat the Magnus Bot!

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Twenty days of getting brutally demolished by the Magnus Bot, today three draws, and finally a win!  

https://www.chess.com/game/computer/561403045

My strongest opening is the Vienna where multiple moves and lines have been built into muscle memory, but no matter after 6-12 moves, the Magnus bot destroyed me.  I started to notice that after the third move, the bot, on a cell phone, did the same moves for each Vienna opening.  On a lap top it does different moves.  Other than an E5 response to E4, it would play the Sicilian, the Pirc, and @GothamChess' favorite the Caro Kann.  

Yesterday and today, I only played the Vienna Gambit and did analysis after committing moves to memory, until I had memorized up to 30+ moves.  I started writing down my moves, and different lines I would try.  

Through analysis I found back to back brilliant moves by offering a Rook Sacrifice, then a king move to H1; however, in one game, I mixed up the sequence and moved the king (?) before the rook (!!), and after the game the Chess.com analysis using Torch showed the bot made a mistake with a Queen move to C7.  From that point I would repeat those sequences being up 1.8 points and continue growing that lead game after game.  

I tried attaching my notes to the post, but it kept giving errors.   Lastly, I also want to bring to the forefront Bobby Fischer, who in a video I watched was disgruntled at chess, for players were just memorizing moves instead of using skill.  I can attest to that, for in no way on skill level am I rated 2650 as given by the analysis, but by memory for those exact series of moves. 

 If being a master requires that much work for each opening, I've a long, long ways to go...