Finally! Beat the Magnus Bot!
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...