Supranormal Acitivity in Chess

One of the measures of supranormal behavior is understanding something that no one else could duplicate intellectually. I conceived of the following position, Magic, more or less intuitively, almost in a trance. One day I just sort of moved my pieces and pawns to these squares without ever having conceived of any intermediate steps. Give any 1700 computer the following position using a minimum of 1 hour per move, and it will beat the World Champion 100 games in a row. The moves? 1.e4/2.d4/3.Nf3/4.Nc3 No GM will ever survive with this starting position. How many of you would recognize that Black is dead lost in this position and not dead lost in the Magic position?

But somehow I knew that the following position is "playable" except for one minor detail. I'll bet no one using a 1700 computer i.e. Sphynx Legend or Par Excellence, not a "dumbed" down version of Fritz 12 or Rybka, thinking for  a minimum of one/move will ever defeat the computer. The reason I say that is GM Lev Alburt, using standard technique in a cramped position promptly blundered on the third move of the opening. Furthermore, he indicated that his evaluation rose from +- at the start of my move sequence to +/- within 7-8 moves despite no blunders by the computer. For those not familiar with the starting position, here it is.

Before I made my first move I had a winning plan---place my King on a8 and attack the White King, which I knew would never run to the center, with all my pieces and pawns. Despite the computer taking over an hour per move, I played the entire game by intuition calculating nothing more than a few moves ahead in a matter of seconds.

One of the things that I've learned against Fritz 12 and Fritz 10 is that they don't play the opponent, they play the board. Here Fritz 10 allows an easy draw rather than give White a pleasant plus.

Sloughterchess- I too believe I have supranormal chess abilities that enable me to play as great or even better than at World Champion level. I am unable to show it in reality, but there is no doubting that I have these powers. Have you discovered any secrets into maximizing the effects of our abilities?

I've often suspected donuts were the key to supranormal acitivity.  Please tell-- should I dunk them in coffee, or milk?

My favorite donut is the Buttermilk Donuts.

I also like the Cider donuts, especially when they are made hot and fresh.

Here is a sample donut.

The eggnog donuts are good.  I could only find this pic with the eggnog donut next to the cider donut.

Scientists are working on a way to make huge amounts of power using doughnuts. The main thing is getting the jam really hot without it squirting everywhere.

 I heard that Walt Disney dunked his in bourbon for breakfast.

Of course the Homer Simpson Defense loses to 6...d5 7.e5 Ne4-/+

This game raises serious doubts that Black can equalize in the Wilkes Barre. As the saying goes, if you can't beat 'em join 'em. A post member has repeatedly suggested that the reply 6.Bb3 in the Wilkes Barre is better (or at least equal) to 6...Bd5, so I thought I'd try it out on Fritz 12. This is what happened. White must have missed a half dozen wins here.

Clearly the Wilkes-Barre/Traxler is busted by move 10. Here is Game in 5 against Fritz 12 which is a monster at blitz chess. The chess wizard isn't working so here is the game score:

 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 5.Bxf7ch Ke7 6.Bb3! Rf8 (6...Qe8 is no improvement because of 7.d3 h6 8.Nf3 d6 9.Be3 +/-) 7.d3 d6 8.Be3 Bxe3 9.fxe3 Bg4 10.Nf3 Kd7 11.Nbd2 Kc8 12.Qe2 b6 13.O-O-O Kb7 14.Rdf1 Qd7 15.c3 Be6 16.Bxe6 Qxe6 17.Kb1 h6 18.h3 Nh5 19.Qe1 d5 20.g4! dxe4 21.Nxe4 Nf6 22.Nxf6 +/= (White is a solid pawn up) Rxf6 23.e4 Raf8 24.Qe2 Qd7 25.Nd2 Rf4 26.Rxf4 Rxf4 27.Rf1 g5 28.Rxf4 gxf4 29.Nf3 a6 30.Qd2 h5 31.Nh2 hxg4 32.Nxg4 (hxg4 +/= according to Fritz) a5 33.a4? (a3 +/=) Qf7 34.Qd1 Qh7 35.Qf1 Qg8 36.Qd1 Qh7 37.Qf1 Qg8 38.Qd1 Qh7 1/2-1/2

Despite the fact that Beliavsky drew Karpov and beat Anand with the Wilkes-Barre/Traxler, the opening is a bust insofar as a winning attempt by Black. It is just too easy to shut down the attack and emerge with a simple strategy for White to follow the entire game---just avoid the obvious tactical shots. Here in Game in 5 against Fritz 10, the idea of 6...Qe8 is squashed.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5? 5.Bxe7ch Ke7 6.Bb3! (There is no point in playing Bd5 if you are just going to exchange Bishop for Knight with Bxc6. White should just force Black to "chase" this Bishop.) 6...Qe8 (Na5?! 7.c3! Nxb3 8.Qxb3 & to show just how useless Qe8 is, Fritz plays 8...Qg8 after 8.Qxb3!) 7.d3 Kf8 8.Be3 (With this simple move, White shuts down the attack before it is even started) 8...Bxe3 (It is no better to play Bb6 because after 9.Bxb6 axb6, the open a-file is a wash with the damaged pawn structure) 9.fxe3 Na5 10.Nd2 Nxb3 11.Nxb3 d6 12.Nf3! (The point---this is no time/tempo attack by Black so it is just necessary to shield the f-file with the idea of eventually chopping wood on the f-file) Kf7 13.Nbd2 Rf8 14.Qe2 Kg8 15.a3 Be6 16.b3 Rd8 17.c4 Qg6 18.O-O Qh6 19.Kh1 Ng4 20.Rae1 b6 21.Kg1 Qg6 22.h3 Nh6 23.Kh1 a6 24.Rf2 Qg3 25.Nf1 Qg6 26.N1d2 Qg3 27.Nf1 Qg6 28.N1d2 Qg3 1/2-1/2

At a slower time limit I would have tried 28.Ng3/R1f1 followed by either c5 or d4. According to Fritz 10 the resulting position is +/-

OK, I'm just going to cut right to the chase here:

In perhaps the worst analytical blunder in all of chess Dr. Hans Berliner, in a critical variation missed three winning strategies by White instead recommending as best the worst of four alternatives. Since he was using the strongest chess computer, Hitech, at the time to validate his theories, this oversight is all the more remarkable. Since his theories have misled the chess community for decades even being presented in exhaustive fashion in BCO2 it is remarkable this hasn't been seen before. Here is the game I played against Fritz 12. The starting moves are: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nd4 6.c3 b5 7.Bf1 Nxd5 8.Ne4 Qh4? (Ne6=) 9.Ng3 Bg4 10.f3 e4 11.cxd4 Bd6 12.Qe2 (The Muir Variation). The double piece sacrifice is unsound i.e. 12...O-O 13.fxe4 Bxg3ch 14.Kd1+- (Just check with your computer)

Book is even worse i.e. 12...Be6. White has three winning plans: 1)13.Qf2?! just holding the piece. John Jerz indicates it is highly favorable to White but it is complicated.

I came up with 13.Nc3!? just giving back the material and gaining an easy win against Fritz 8 with 13...Nxc3 14.dxc3 Bxg3ch 15.hxg3 Qxh1 16.Qxb5ch Kf8 (Black should stay a piece down here with practical chances i.e. 16.Qxb5ch Bd7 18.Qe5ch Be6 19.d5 +/-.

A move that incredibly appears to be new to theory is just 13.Qxb5ch!! Here is my game with Fritz 12.

Man, even uhohspaghettio thinks you're a blowhard.

That's telling.

For no apparent reason Fritz 12 on three separate occasion plays a completely losing concept. Can anyone with a Fritz 12 engine verify the following move sequence on their computers

? Obviously 10...Bb7 is much stronger than 10...Bd6.

With regard to the above position Black plays Bd6 instantly indicating that it is "book", yet no player above Class D strength would miss both 11.Nc3 or Bxc8, both +- in the hands of most GM's because White is a pawn up with the better pawn structure. How does this transpose from another position when clearly 10.Bf5 is new to the computer because it takes several minutes to find 9...O-O? There can't be a transposition so what programming glitch does this represent? It is the opposite of a supranormal event; it is a subnormal event.

Fritz 10 also plays 10...Bd6?? Who programmed these Fritz engines anyway?