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Weird gambit by computer
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Titans sometimes does this, even on higher levels. Level 10 seems to look at least 5 moves ahead in some combinations, and yet it sometimes moves right into a pin that costs it a piece, when it would only need to see 2 moves ahead in order to avoid it.
it seems to me like this program made a move that seems sound when searching a few moves ahead, but not in the long term aspect. This was probably a blitz game too. NO the gambit is not sound. It's horrible for black and you should have won.
White is winning, despite structural weakness. One pawn sacrifice is sound, two sometimes(losing three and regaining one is sacrificing two), but three pawns or a minor piece is not worth it at all.(two minor pieces for three pawns is down by a minor piece or three pawns by point value)
very interesting opening. i would never have played it.
When confronted with a losing position, sometimes chess playing programs will throw pieces away because that pushes inevitable losses out of the "move horizon", so the computer thinks it has avoided a loss. Titans seems to be doing just that here. When it moved out the bishop, it didn't "know" it could forced to lose the bishop to p-c3 because all the possiblities leading up to that loss was outside of its move horizon. But once the move was made and you pushed the pawn to c3, it had two pieces under attack, so it started sacrificing hoping to avoid the loss. This is a common shortcoming of many chess playing programs. They "panic" when confronted with an inevitable loss, especially those involving the queen or the king.
Vista Chess Titans is just a poorly designed chess program. There are much better free alternatives that will give you plenty of fight.
You may be exposed, but he is undeveloped. Your jobs are clear. Develop and castle and trade material whenever possible. Grab the open files he's given you.
I lack Titan, but I find my ChessMaster10 is extraordinary with endgames, either it plays openings from memory, or does "strange" moves so I get it off book early.
The Jerome Gambit used to be (19th Century) popular where white sacs 2 pieces for a truly exposed (ie centered) black king. White was also undeveloped and so could not attack quickly enough. It was considered unsound yet fun, even in the 19th century. Then Blackburne turned the tables on white by actually sacking more material as black (winding up an exchange down) in exchange for greatly superior development and virtually forces a long and amazing mate. I've been meaning to stick the game on here as a lesson in the virtues of straight forward development.
How'd the rest of the game go? I tried reproducing that position but the computer mostly played sicilian in response to e4. It did play e5 once, but then it brought its bishop out. It won the position around the 20th move.
On the rest of the game I just traded off pieces and eventually won (my first win against this program higher than level 6)
I've been playing my computer in an high difficultyfor quite sometime, and it always seems to play good opening moves, but recently I've encountered a responce to KG that astonished me. I thought of showing it to you guys