Back in December I reviewed the Fritz 19’s personalities that you can play against. The available opponents are: Beginner, Hobby Player, Club Player, Strong Club Player, Master Candidate and Grandmaster.
For another test game today I chose Hobby Player.
For each opponent you can choose a style: All Around, Aggressive, Swindler, Positional, Timid and Endgame Specialists. I selected All Around. I am guessing the selection I chose plays at the 1400-1500 level.
My recent games against the machine seem to confirm the opinion that I reached back in December...the games could very well have been played by a couple of non-Masters.
The All Around Hobby Player caught me off guard with the ancient Philidor Defense and although the opening was not one of the main line variations, they were plausible until black’s 6...d5 which did not work out too well, but it’s pointless 7th move was already a losing one. The bot seems to like the Philidor Defense which is known as a solid but passive choice for Black and is probably as good as anything else in amateur play.
Once again I must conclude that the Fritz 19 program is a good choice for anyone who wants to play against a computer opponent, wants to play online at Playchess,com, study all phases of the game, annotate games or publish games. It packs a lot of gear for about $100.
Tartajubow–All Around Hobby Player1–0C41Test Game2025Stockfish 17
C41: Philidor Defence 1.e4 d6 2.d4 e5 3.f3 f6 4.dxe5 xe4 5.c4 c6 6.bd2 d5 Feeble. 6...xd2 7.xd2 d5 8.d3 d7 White has played 9.b4, 9. e6 and 9.c3, all reasonable moves. 7.xe4 a5 Pointless. 7...dxc4 8.e2 e7 9.0-0 0-0 10.d1 c7 11.xc4 White is better developed and has more space, but black's position is tenable. 8.g5 b6 8...e7 9.d6+ f8 10.xe7+ xe7 11.xd5 cxd5 12.xd5 Stockfish gives white a large advantage and Fritz comments the he is clearing winning. In the case of the amateurs involed let's just sat white should win. 9.xd5 Because black is going to win back the piece, I decided on this simply because it picks up a P. Stockfiah says this is not bad, but much less strong than castling. 9.0-0 h6 10.h4 dxe4 11.e6 A nice little tactical shot. xe6 12.e5 Even better than the obvious 12.Bxe6 xc4 13.xc4 c7 Here, too, the engine says white is clear. y winning. 14.g4 9...cxd5 10.xd5 e6 10...xb2 11.d8# 11.d3 d7 11...xb2 12.d8# 12.0-0 Played without hesitation because it's too dangerous to take the P. Actually, the P might as well be captured because 12...h6 13.Be3 isn't a whole lot better. xb2 13.fb1 a3 Now what? White has a winning position, but to be honest at this point I was stumped and couldn't think of any clear way to concinut so just made what seemed to be a neutral move. 14.b5 14.d6+ I considered this, but black can exchange Qs and it didn't seem like a good idea to allow him to do so because his Q is in a bad location on a3 xd6 15.exd6 xd3 16.cxd3 h6 17.e7 b8 18.d4 e5 19.c1 xd3 20.c7 Still, white has a decisive advantage. 14...e7 I came within a whisker of grabbing the b-Pawn, but at the last second noticed the Q is trapped/ 15.c1 15.xb7 is not a disaster though... 0-0 16.d4 xg5 17.xe6 fxe6 18.xd7 e7 19.xe7 xe7 20.b7 and wgite should win the ending. 15...xf3 seems better. 15...b4 16.xb4 xb4 17.e3 0-0 White has a Q+P vs. R material advantage. 16.gxf3 0-0 17.xb7 Here white has a Q+P vs. B mterial advantage. ab8 18.a7 a8 19.e3 h3 Black has some piece activity, but is down too much material to claim any compensation. But...this move was seanky; I didn;t suspect anything. My problem now is to activate my pieces. 20.d2 a6 21.b7 Safer was 21.Kh1 h5 Pointless. It takes black a couple of move to play the R to g6/ 22.ab1 fa8 23.f4 g6+ 24.g5 24.h1 This hasty move would not be a tital disaster thanks to white's big material advantahe. g2+ 25.g1 xe4+ 26.f1 xc2 27.xd7 xb1 28.b3 f5 29.xe7 f8 30.xa5 24...f5 25.h1 a4 26.f3 26.e6 was even stronger. xe6 27.xe6 xe6 28.f3 26...g4 27.d5 f8 28.e6 28.xd7 was even stronger. xg5 29.fxg5 xd7 30.xd7 e6 31.b7 Black is out of useful moves. 28...f6 29.exf7+ Here I decided to retun the Q just to simplify matters. h8 30.xe7 30.d3 h6 31.xe7 h4 32.c3 h5 33.xf6 xg5 34.fxg5 h5 35.f5 xf7 36.xf7 e8 37.g6 e1+ 38.xe1 gxf6 39.h7# 30...xd5 31.e8 31.b8 mates in 11 f3+ 32.g1 xg5+ 33.fxg5 xb8 34.e8+ h7 34...xe8 35.fxe8+ h7 36.g6# 35.xb8 g6 36.f8 f6 37.gxf6 d5 38.fxg7 f7 39.b6+ f5 40.xf7+ e4 41.b4+ e5 42.f4# 31...xg5 32.xf8+ h7 Why not 33.fxg5 woulf be a good question and I can't answer it! 33.h4 Rh8+! would kill now. f3+ 34.h2 f5 35.bb8 g6 Now I realized the P won;t Q and so had to come up woth a different plan. 36.b5 xf7 37.f5+ xf5 38.xf5 xf5 39.c4 And here I did something we are unable to do in games agasinst live opponents...I resigned for black. 1–0
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