Pete's Pathetic Chess: The Unbelievable Castle
Unfortunately for readers looking for lucid chess instruction, it's time for another episode of Pete's Pathetic Chess, where I subject my awful moves and chess ideas to analysis by a brilliant grandmaster and the best chess-playing computer in the world.
Joining my foolishness with his own (worthwhile) annotations will be GM Alex Yermolinsky, the venerable Chess.com/TV host and old-school grandmaster.
Photo: Wikipedia.
Also weighing in with made-up comments is a fictional personification of the real Stockfish 8, upgraded from its previous version 7—although running my moves through the poor engine might cause it to downgrade itself to a pre-1.0 state in a futile attempt to gloss over my atrocious chess play with past silicon memories.
Stockfish 8 is currently the highest-rated chess engine in history, boasting a 3389 rating on the latest CCRL pure list and providing more than enough firepower to analyze my errors.
Due to member request, all annotations from GM Yermo, Pete, and Stockfish 8 will appear in the same game viewer for ease of review.
The game:
A Chess.com simul given by IM Aman Hambleton, playing as the 1200-rated Chessbrah account for his live stream. Time control was 60 minutes plus 10 seconds per move, which did not seem to improve my play.
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