Jerome Gambit: Battered But Unbowed (Part 3)

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perrypawnpusher - Chess Titans

2022 

42.Ra1 

I wanted to get my Rook in front of the Kingside pawns. Interestingly enough, Stockfish 14.1 suggests that White's King and Knight move over and gang up on the pawns, instead.

42...Kxb4 

I suspect that if I were playing a human opponent, the defensive plan would be to get all the pawns off the board and force me to win with Rook plus Knight against Rook. (It is a basic draw, except for a few positions.)

43.Rg1 Rd8 44.Ke3 Kc3 45.Ne5 Rc8 46.Rxg7 h6 47.Rh7 Rb8 48.Rxc7+ Kb3 49.Rh7 Rb6 

Neither I nor my opponent was particularly skilled in endgame play, but I think I was doing better.

50.f5 Rf6 51.Rf7 Ra6 52.Rh7 Ra5 53.d4 Ra6 54.Ng6 

Nice block.

54...Ra5 55.Ke4 Ka3 56.Rxh6 

Stronger, but not required, was 56.f6.

56...Ra6 57.Ke5 Kb4 58.f6 Ra7 59.Ne7 Kc4 60.d5 Ra5 

There is little to be done to stop the pawn from promoting.

61.f7 Ra8 62.Rc6+ Kb3 63.Rc8 

Nice.

63...Rxc8 64.Nxc8 Ka2 65.f8=Q 

65...Kb1 66.Qf2 Ka1 67.Nb6 Kb1 68.Nc4 Kc1 69.Qd2+ Kb1 70.Qb2 checkmate

Whew! 

I wondered exactly how much of an accomplishment this win was, so I went searching on the internet, and found this from a discussion on the strength of Chess Titans

victor890

Jan 29, 2017    0  #10

 Chess Titans for Windows 7/8 is rated at ELO 1800.

Level 1 is rated 600, Every level after that add 133.33 to it, at levels 3,6 and 9 add 133.34.

You end up with 1=600, 2=733.33, 3=866.66, 4=1000.00, 5=1133.33, 6=1266.66, 7=1400, 8=1533.33, 9=1666.66, 10=1800.

Each level can vary by +/- 4%, that's why sometimes you win easily and sometimes it pulls off some great move outta nowhere, but it's still a low level A.I. and won't see more than 2 or 3 moves ahead.

All of which left me feeling a bit like the Gallant Tailor from the story by The Brothers Grimm...