Komodo Defeats Nakamura in Final Battle (Odds Match)

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Komodo Defeats Nakamura in Final Battle (Odds Match)

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He put up a valiant fight against Komodo.

One of my favorite Man vs Modern Machine games is his 2008 blitz victory over Rybka. A 271 move game with a six bishop ending - with all the bishops being Nakamura's!

It shows that he certainly has a sense of humor.

Brief commentary of the game here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4V_LJTvqM

Someone even took the time create a mashup of part of the ending with the Benny Hill theme:

https://gifsound.com/?gif=i.imgur.com/w ... K6TXMsvgQg
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fourthirty wrote:He put up a valiant fight against Komodo.

One of my favorite Man vs Modern Machine games is his 2008 blitz victory over Rybka. A 271 move game with a six bishop ending - with all the bishops being Nakamura's!

It shows that he certainly has a sense of humor.

Brief commentary of the game here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4V_LJTvqM

Someone even took the time create a mashup of part of the ending with the Benny Hill theme:

https://gifsound.com/?gif=i.imgur.com/w ... K6TXMsvgQg
Greetings Greg:

As much as I’d like to lambaste Rybka and Fischer for throwing away their respective drawn games for “pie in the sky” ambitions of victory, I still find myself making unsound sacrifices in these tedious locked positions. This is one of the reasons I’ve taken such an interest in Japanese chess of late. Since pawns capture in the forward direction in shogi, there are no locked positions, and drawn games are relatively rare.

Here’s a similar game played between GM Robert Fischer and GM Edmar Mednis in the 1962 US Championship. Fischer, not satisfied with a draw against Mednis, throws it all away:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044163

This game would later be published in the book, “How To Beat Bobby Fischer” by GM Edmar Mednis.

:cry: Tears of Frustration Regards,
John
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