Training Game #10 with Super Eval

I decided to take part in his mission to provide competition for the computer as it would both be an exciting challenge and in may even allow me to grow as a chess player. But before I can ever hope to compete, I must first practice and train with the felew699's thought process, called Super Eval. Here's his article detailing the process: https://lichess.org/@/felew699/blog/against-stockfish-game-11-i-did-it/pJNga7XW.

My plan for training my ability to use Super Eval is to play an 1800 level bot on chess.com, then a 1900 bot, then a 2000 bot, and so on, until I reach max level, where by then, I should have had enough practice to effectively use Super Eval against the computer. Today, I played against the 2400 bot. I have played against it before, but I know it is a tricky bot. I have often gotten better positions and then it just manages to put enough challenge on me until it wins. Anyway, here is the game:

In the post game analysis, I had an accuracy of 96%! I am very happy with the score. I had a total of 2 inaccuracies, 0 mistakes, and 1 blunder. Below are the highlights of the game.

On move 11, I thought for a decent bit about the difference between Bxf6 and e4. Eventually, I decided on the correct move, which is e4, attacking the queen. The line which I had to calculate was after Qa4+. I had to realize that after Qa4+, I could play b4 and force the computer to give up a piece in order to not lose the queen because the queen has no squares. After this, I could safely say that Qa4+ is not an option for black and so e4 becomes so much stronger with this knowledge.

On move 15, I played the move Qd2, intending to connect my rooks and bring them to the center files. However, Rc1 immediately is apparently the much better move, because it threatens to play Bb5, winning the knight through a pin. I didn't see this and decided to play the game in a more slow way.

After some questionable moves from the computer, I make my only blunder of the game, and honestly, I don't think it should be counted as a blunder, but more so as a mistake. On move 11, I played the move Qc2+, with the intent on taking the queen for a rook and getting an easier game. However, the endgame after the queen are traded is apparently much better for me then the endgame where I have a queen for a rook and bishop. That being said, it is very difficult for black to make moves that keep the initiative and keep me from gaining all the advantage. This is shown as right after I played Qxc7, winning a free pawn and infiltrating the enemy camp with my queen, the computer plays Bd8, which allows me to win another pawn and prevents his rook on f8 from getting to d8, where it would have been much better placed.

My final mistake is one due to not calculating far enough. On move 33, I have successfully attacked the enemy king and forced it into the middle of the board, and so I have to look for ways to attack it. My intuition told me to play Qg4+, and so I looked at it and calculated it and missed the key move of Qe4+, which just simply wins the game almost immediately. My intuition was correct in this situation, but because I was lazy and tired, I decided to play the much easier to calculate, Rxh6, which just trades off some rooks and gives me a simple endgame to convert.

Overall, I am happy with this game and am excited to move on to the 2500 chess.com bot.

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