Hi all,  I have been recommended another
amazing game to show you today Leela (Neural Network)
again Stockfish (The No.1 Alpha Beta style engine) - this was in the chess
com blitz bonanza final - five minutes
with a two second increment.  The
opening book given to both - Leela playing
with the white pieces plays e4 and we
have the Pirc Chess opening g6 here this is
the end of the book now Bishop e3 from
Leela so a very strong move it is though
playing against the Sicilian dragon
you'd normally want to play Queen d2
f3 and Castle queenside - here we have
Bishop g7 Queen d2 black castles f3 -
so a very interesting setup indeed c6
white castles Queen side h5. Fischer
once said against the dragon something
like you just open up the h-file sac sac
and mate something like that in the
Fischer memorable games book so it's
interesting
can white get any attack going here in
this position which seems a little bit
like a Sicilian dragon we have a very
interesting move. h5 is already out of
normal book normally b5 is played and
some games have followed like this King
b1 bishop going to h6 and it's thought
to have some equal chances believe it or
not this position but here h5 you
might think this is extreme prophylaxis
against g4 but in fact Leela rebels and
plays g4 anyway H takes G there's no
point trying to play h4 here the Queen
could just drop back and hit h4
nothing's going to be protecting that
there big advantage for white so H takes
G
and now h4 -  this is a little bit
curious this this order but it seems as
though it's doing the job of opening up
some files which is what you want to do
against the opponent's king and time is
of the essence in an opposite side
castling scenario like this
so very very exciting a start position
really well from the opening earlier in
the opening but Leela is playing super
aggressively b5 if black takes this pawn
it's just helping white. Here is a fictional
scenario the H file could basically be
used even with an exchange sack you'll
be accelerating White's attack and it's
just these scenarios are extremely
dangerous this is just a fictional one
where Nb5 for Bishop c5 check and blacks
King is getting basically slaughtered in
these in these scenarios
that's one fictional scenario there
so anyway b5 so trying to keep things
closed for the moment as much as
possible- h5 - trying to open things up
again Knights takes Bishop h6 so is it
really the case that this attack is
dangerous
we have f6 being played if we look at
the alternative Bishop takes h6 Queen
takes say e5 this scenario - the lines do
tend to get opened up so in this
fictional scenario white is sacking the
exchange and using the H file for example
with a big advantage yeah as yeah it can
get to really dangerous situations so f6
that is what Stockfish believes is the
right defense here look at how many
pawns black has moved actually and all
the pieces on the back row there we have
Bishop d3 e5 f takes g4 so this is
opening up more lines taking any F file
exposure potentially Bishop takes
Be2
and the G file - say we have an F G and H
files if we look at this the attacking
pressure potentially is quite large
because of these semi opened files Queen
d7 and now rook h4 nudging that bishop
away trying to lift the blockades now on
this semi open files and in fact White is
now potentially threatening rook takes
and
Rg1 so it's already looking pretty
desperate this this situation yeah this
spells severe danger for the black king
this scenario already so king h7 was played
if we look at alternative bishops takes
then Queen takes Queen g7 rook takes
this is just it's all too strong because
there's the idea of Rg1 if g
takes -  it's all too strong for white
is getting a big advantage so
King h7 was chosen
we have bishop takes queen takes king b1
and that's an interesting move to stop
Queen h6 - the Queen's coming off - thats a
necessary detail in the midst of what
seems to be a ferocious attacking game
to play king b1 but yeah sometimes it's
needed.  King g8 and now rook takes h5
yeah this was just desperate King g8 but
what is black doing here so rook takes
this now wins the queen is at the end of
the story just winning the Queen here by
move 20 it seems as though Leela has
really smashed up this pirc -
is it really that unplayable that Stockfish is getting this position Queen
takes Knight takes - let's see what
happens now so plan a Leela is getting
the knight now  to f5 that's plan a with
this position okay bit of an attack from
black there for a moment it seems. a
takes but yeah these pawns are all weak
actually these pawns are now being taken
as well and the queen is looking pretty
menacing threatening Queen G free check
potentially there sometimes yeah Black's
just shedding pawns and it looks as
though there's not much for black to do
here this really does look that knight on
f5 looks formidable and the pawns on the
Queen side now so let's see how this
continues .. Leela giving up that knight
check check and look at all these passed
pawns that the two rooks it would seem
very very unlikely for the two rooks
to be able to do anything against the
four extra pawns well - three extra pawns
there but the three connected passed pawns
look absolutely winning visually
visually crushing and in fact Queen
takes d6 here is transitioning to a
totally won position after a7 there is no
stopping the pawns here after c7 King b7
yep one pawn is enough after this you
know threatening c8 so one pawn is
enough and that's it's pretty sweet
crush of the Pirc defense - it looks as
though what Fischer said about the
Dragon is what Leela is doing to Stockfish
Pirc defense just opening up the H
file sack sac and mates nearly here Queen
e1
checkmate so quite a crushing game
there.  Very interesting these
encounters and at the moment it seems as
though Leela is ahead of the field
significantly ahead of Stockfish at the
moment so looks to be set to be at the
moment winning this blitz bonanza final
but there's quite a few games to go so
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