Episode 5 (Final) | Mittens CRUSHED me - the FINAL BOSS is a KITTEN GOD!

#catmemes #chesscomputer #Sicilian #GrandPrixAttack 

This is the fifth and final episode playing, and hopefully defeating the all new cat meme chess bots unleashed by chess.com in 2023!

Mittens is an enigmatic and super-cute kitten with an ELO rating of 1!  However, over the past four days playing against Scaredy Cat, Angry Cat, Mr Grumpers, and Catspurrov, I wonder whether there is more to Mittens that meets the eye!  Each cat-bot complained to Mittens about me about the game, and I wonder whether she is not, in fact, the boss.  A final boss so to speak!

Mittens responds to e4 with the Sicilian Defense - very professional.  I decided to use the Grand Prix Attack (1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4).  I like the Grand Prix as it isn't difficult to play, and the main idea is relatively compatible with the Vienna.  An early f4, expansion on the king-side, and launch an early attack!  I had great success with this overall strategy against Catspurrov yesterday.

Perhaps I was blinded by that success as I tried to do a similar tactic of sacrificing queen-side material to gain tempo in moving my knight, bishop, and queen to attack Mittens' king, which had castled king-side.  And I thought it was working!  Mittens, however, was simply toying with me and had seen through the attack from the beginning.

I thought that I had a mating attack but hadn't recognised that Mittens' had strategically placed her queen on the long dark square diagonal.  On move 15, I triumphantly captured Mittens' fianchetto bishop and to discover in horror that Mittens captured back with her queen (15. Bxg7 Qxg7).

At this point, I lost all hope in the game.  In fact, this attack never even had a chance [-12].  Mittens spent the next 15 moves ruthlessly hunting down my pieces and flexed her superiority with a knight checkmate in the centre of the board!  Good game, I guess?  I'm scared!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/analysis/library/4fGkdRhNQE