Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! It's all about the squeeze! Leela-Obsidian TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! It's all about the squeeze! Leela-Obsidian TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
This video is in the Great Engine Games series! At an early stage, Leela accepts doubled pawns for an open g-file and to avoid wasting time moving its bishop twice. Time to attack? Not for Leela! Leela plays very deliberately, investing its tempi in securing more space on the kingside and holding back permanently any Black queenside play. Leela then follows up with a Karpovian Nb1 to shore up its centre with c4 and forestall any Black hopes of counterplay! A really nice positional squeeze, typical of Leela! The game is available here for replay: tcec-chess.com...
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Such a great game!
Yeah, girl did well! 😊😊
Engines just won't get tired to show us that a lack dynamism or activity is a permanent weakness and not a temporary one. Well at least that's my interpretation
Yes indeed - that's definitely the big change that came about with NNs and NNUEs. Suddenly they could assess the long-term dynamics way better than us!
Great video, thanks Matthew ! Echoes of Tal-Botvinnik WCh game in gxf3 !?
Regarding 11.h4 (not sure I got the move count right) : I think the move is prophylactic, not “aggressive”. Left to his own devices, Black will play …Nh5 and …Ng6 (plus …h6 and …Bg5 if needed) after which he’s strategically winning. 11.h4 prevents both …Ng6 and …Nh5 and is more flexible / desirable than 11.f4
Yes indeed I thought of that game too! Yes indeed, this h4-h5 idea is all about surrounding space so that Black can't use it for its own purposes. I'm not hugely into space-gaining as a player so it always surprises me a little when I see it happen like this!
After c5 my thought was that dc is the obvious move but then you just get a recapture so instead you can throw in Bb5+ and then do dc but, you know, that's against the rules. Leela's weird moves are probably because it thinks the opponent has no way of improving their position so it can just sit there and play with the opponent like it's a cat playing with a mouse until it decides to get around to winning. As we all know having pawns on f2, f4, and h5 form an ideal fortress around the white king and mean you have nothing to worry about.