Strange Line given by the chess.com Computer analysis?

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Avatar of Marcus-101

I just got analysis back from the chess.com engine for one of my 5min games and it gave a few really strange lines!! It even made a mistake!

What I mean by mistake is that it said one of my moves was a mistake (19...Nf8) and the so called best move gave white (I was playing black) a decisive advantage and the move I played, the mistake, gave white a moderate advantage?!

Also on move 28. Qg3, the blunder that ended the game, it says the best move is equal for white, and in that line white leaves a knight hanging that I could take for free, but instead the computer reccommends sacrificing my queen for a rook and let my opponent draw by perpetual check? Perhaps I am missing something and over reacting because it called 1...e6, the typical starting move of the French an inaccuracy!! Anyway here is the analysis of the game

 

 

Avatar of mottsauce

the solution is to analyze games on your own.

Avatar of Marcus-101

Where should I download houdini from?

Avatar of Marcus-101

like what site? I tried from a random one but it didn't work..

Avatar of waffllemaster

Really?  My houdini 1.5 prefers 19...Bxf4 by more than half a pawn, and at the end of the line says black has the decisive advantage at roughly -3.00

Avatar of Marcus-101

Wierd!! Have you checked out the lines it gives for 28.Qg3 because I think they are even stranger....

Avatar of Marcus-101

And I have now tried to download houdini but I don't think works on my mac..

Avatar of funandniceisme

What are you trying to open Houdini in?

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MarcazzarSmish wrote:

Wierd!! Have you checked out the lines it gives for 28.Qg3 because I think they are even stranger....

It agrees with this line also.  Black is winning, except white has this perpetual to force a draw.

Avatar of azziralc

I install the Houdini 1.5 in my Arena program.

And let it helps me analyse my games.

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waffllemaster wrote:
MarcazzarSmish wrote:

Wierd!! Have you checked out the lines it gives for 28.Qg3 because I think they are even stranger....

It agrees with this line also.  Black is winning, except white has this perpetual to force a draw.

But I don't think that white can force a draw after 28. Qc8 Nxh4?

And I was trying to open Houdini in SCID but it didn't work..

Avatar of waffllemaster

Move 31 is Qf8+ of course, not 31.Qg4+    How could you not see this mate?  Wink

That's the problem with computer lines when it's pure tactics, the "advice" falls a bit flat when we know we'd never have seen these variations in a game in the first place.



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ah.. yes.. so the computer analysis didn't really make a mistake after all, I'm just not clever enough.. lol