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Missed Blocking Tactic

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Lately, I’ve been playing blitz games against MadChess 3.3 (not yet released) to get a feel for how strongly it plays when weakened to my patzer Elo level. Sparring against MadChess helps me calibrate its limit-strength parameters and perhaps glean ideas for classifying more unreasonable inferior moves. My most recent game begins 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Bb5 a5 6.Be3 d5 7.e5 Ng4 8.Qd2 Nxe3 9.Qxe3 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Qd7 11.O-O f5 12.e6 Qd6 13.Nxf5 Qxe6 14.Qxe6 Bxe6 15.Nd4 Bd7 16.Rad1 g6 17.a4 Nb4 18.Rfe1 h5 19.Rd2 b6. So far I’ve played well enough for a player of… Continue Reading

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Knight Outpost

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A knight positioned on an outpost controls opponent territory, restricting movement of the opponent’s pieces on the opponent’s side of the board. An outpost is defined as a square on the fifth or sixth rank, occupied by a minor piece (usually a knight), supported by its own pawn, and positioned such that it cannot ever be attacked by an opposing pawn. In other words, the opponent has no pawns on the neighboring files, or if the opponent has pawns on the neighboring files, they’ve advanced even with or beyond the outpost square. Red highlights in the above position indicate squares… Continue Reading

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MadChess 2.0 Beta Build 083 (Knight Outposts)

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I added knight outpost evaluation to MadChess 2.0 Beta. Knights on the 5th rank or beyond are awarded a bonus if they cannot be attacked by enemy pawns and are supported by their own pawn. This added 25 Elo to the playing strength of MadChess 2.0 Beta. MadChess 2.0 2287 : 1600 (+785,=327,-488), 59.3 % vs. : games ( +, =, -), (%) : Diff, SD, CFS (%) Glass 1.6 : 100 ( 14, 15, 71), 21.5 : -187, 10, 0.0 RomiChess P3L : 100 ( 18, 28, 54), 32.0 : -145, 14, 0.0 OliThink 5.3.2 : 100 ( 21,… Continue Reading