Perfect play but mated in 22 moves?

Sort:
Avatar of AtahanT

I'm not sure what to think of the computer analysis (str 2500) when it gives me 0 inaccuracies, 0 mistakes and 0 blunders eventhough I got mated in 22 moves. What's up with that?

Avatar of Kupov3

I don't believe you at all. Any computer would rate a move that didn't extend the game in the face of an incoming mate, as a blunder.

Avatar of AtahanT
Kupov3 wrote:

I don't believe you at all. Any computer would rate a move that didn't extend the game in the face of an incoming mate, as a blunder.


Well, that's what it said when it came back from computer analysis.

Avatar of AtahanT

Here you go, a copy of the page:

 

Rapid Team Match (>1500, 2days/move) - Board 1

Score: 1-0 Date: 12/2/2009
Time: 2 days
Opening:  E21: Nimzo-Indian Defense: Three Knights Variation

Computer Analysis (~2500 strength)

Inaccuracies: 0 = 0.0% of moves
Mistakes: 0 = 0.0% of moves
Blunders: 0 = 0.0% of moves

Score:
Inaccuracies(?!): 0 = 0.0% of moves | Mistakes(?): 0 = 0.0% of moves | Blunders(??): 0 = 0.0% of moves
Believe me at all now? ^^
Avatar of PrawnEatsPrawn

No inaccuracies does not mean you played perfectly. Suppose the threshold for ?! is more than -0.3 (deviation from the "best" move) but each of your moves were -0.29 then the machine would make no comment as to inaccuracies as you slowly slide into the mire.

I agree the site analysis is pretty shoddy. I have a number of examples where it suggests better moves than mine and proceeds to give a long line of analysis but on the move after its improvement it is completely stymied by a simple move that was over its horizon (a mate in one for instance! dropping a whole Rook on another occasion).

Avatar of Kupov3

It looks like it's suggesting plenty of alternative variations...Maybe the interface bugged out or something, or it rated your opponents play, I dunno.

That is strange.

Avatar of dannyhume

I just input this game into Deep Rybka 3...

Afer 14.Qg4+, it says 0.00,

After 14....Kh8, it says +156.50 (and gives a variation of 14....Kh7 as +0.00 instead) and in the chess.com computer analysis it gives a couple variations but fails to reveal a mistake or blunder.

The evaluation pretty much stays at +156.50 until 18.Qh4 when it says +2.63, but after 18....Kg6 it goes back to 156.50 until checkmate with a variation of 18...f5!? 19.Rxh6 Kg8  20.g4 f4  21.Bg7 Qg7 22.Be4 as +2.63

Analysis time = 10 minutes 45 seconds.

So much for chess.com 2500-level analysis.

Avatar of erik

how many moves deep did Rybka look to find 14...Kh8 as the error? it might have gone further than our computers look. 

Avatar of dannyhume

For completeness sake, 14....Kh8 is given the "??" and the 14....Kh7! variation continues... 

15.d3 f5

16.0-0 d6

17. Qxd4 Nc6

18.Qc3 a6

19. Bb1 Qa4

20.Bc2

-0.07

 

Of the moves actually played, the only symbol assessments that are given are...

14....Kh8?? and

18. Qh4?! Kg6?!

Avatar of dannyhume
erik wrote:

how many moves deep did Rybka look to find 14...Kh8 as the error? it might have gone further than our computers look. 


I am not sure how to assess the "depth" of the search since I am a computer-analysis rookie and I have heard that "depth" of search is not the same as the ply-depth of the given variation.  

This is actually the first game I have ever analyzed using Rybka.

I thought 12-ply was what the computer analysis on chess.com goes to but how that translates to "depth" is well beyond me.  If anyone knows how I can look this up on Deep Rybka 3 w32, please let me know...I used whatever the default is.

But why would the chess.com analysis list mating variations of 14...Kh7 and not call those inaccuracies, blunders or mistakes?