The first one is from a laptop I don’t remember having, but it must date back to 2016 because while browsing through the hard drive I discovered a database named My Online Games that contains almost 1,200 of my online games played between 2010 and 2016.
I don’t remember saving them and it was fun randomly playing through them. Many of those early games were annotated using the Houdini engine which was first released on May 15, 2010 by Belgian programmer Robert Houdart. My version 1.5 was released on December 10, 2010..
The engine had an attacking style that was compared to the style of the Romantic Era and it was rated around 3185 on CCRL (Computer Chess Rating Lists) and ranked as the top engine in the world when it was released.
It was also involved in a controversy when it was alleged to be a derivative of another engine and to have plagiarized code from yet another engine. In 2021, the Stockfish team announced legal action against ChessBase alleging that Houdini 6 and Fat Fritz 2 were in violation of the GNU General Public License. As part of the settlement agreement ChessBase conceded that the allegations were true.
Some of the games were played on sites that are now defunct, but most were played on two sites. One was Instant Chess (Cup of coffee compatible). The site was created and developed by French programmer Thibault Duplessis, who later evolved the project into Lichess. The other site was Queeb Alice which is still around.
Here is one of the early games I lost. After emerging from the opening with an advantage passive play lead to a quick debacle.
[Event "Instant Chess G15"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Tartajubow"]
[Black "Opponent"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C61"]
[Annotator "Stocksis 18"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2011.??.??"]
{C61: Ruy Lopez: Bird's Defense} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 {This game was played at a time when I was still taking chess seriously and not playing just for fun, so there were no Urusov Gambits, Grob Attacks or other unusual openings.} Nd4 {Known since 1843 when it was piblished in von Bilguer's Handbuch des Schachspiels, it was explored by the English master Henry Bird in the late 1800s. It was later used a few times by Siegbert Tarrasch, Today it is used only rarekly as a surprise and with careful play white is believed to gain an advantage.} 4. Nxd4 exd4 {Now white generally plays 5.O-O with 5.d3 and 5.Bc4 being distant second choices.} 5. Qf3 {Rare and not especially good. The main idea is that since white at some point will have to retreat the B, when it reaches the a2-g8 diagonal white will have pressure on f7. It's not a very good point though because black can easily defend f7 and the Q is not very well placed on f3. Still, white can often get away with a move like this because of his extra opening tempo. What it really does is allow black to equalize without difficulty.} (5. O-O {is usual.} Bc5 6. d3 c6 {and either 7.Ba4 or Bc4 are acceptable.}) 5... Nf6 {This move is not a book move and for a good reason...it offers white a chance to gain space and seize the initiative.} (5... Qf6 6. Qe2 c6 7. Bc4 Bc5 8. d3 Ne7 {equals. Moreno Martin,D (2196)-Bardera Gil,S (2056) Vila-Seca ESP 2010}) (5... g6 6. c3 Bg7 7. cxd4 Bxd4 8. Nc3 Ne7 9. d3 O-O {White is slightly better. Villar,J (2105)-Lima,D (2475) Brasilia 1998}) (5... Bc5 6. O-O Ne7 7. c3 c6 8. Bc4 d5 9. exd5 cxd5 10. Bb3 O-O {equals. Papay,J (2024)-Horackova,A Teplice 2007}) 6. d3 {There is nothing wrong with this move, but it's too wimpy. White should try and play aggressively, but I was influenced by my opponent's higher rating and wanted to play it safe.} (6. e5 $1 {illustrates the problem with black's last move.} Qe7 {This attack on the e-Pawn hinders the development of black's B, but it's better than undeveloping. White now has to move his Q again to defend the e-Pawn...or does he?} 7. Kd1 $1 {This unconventional move secure the advantage because now black is forced to retreat the N.} Ng8 (7... Qc5 {is successfully met by} 8. exf6 Qxb5 9. Re1+ Kd8 10. fxg7 Bxg7 11. d3) 8. d3 {and black has problems getting his pieces into play. White has a slight advantage.}) ({White should play} 6. e5 $16) 6... c6 7. Bc4 {Playing aggressively with 7.e5 was still the best.} (7. e5 cxb5 8. exf6 Qxf6 9. Qxf6 gxf6 10. O-O {Black's Ps are shattered, but white has no real way to take advantage of them, so the chances are equal. However, in some interesting Shootout games white scored +2 -0 =3.}) 7... b5 {Better was 7...d5} 8. Bb3 a5 {It was still advisable to play 8...d5.} 9. a3 {Again, white's play is too passive.} (9. a4 {Gums black's Q-side play. After} bxa4 10. Bxa4 {black still faces the possibility of e5 plus he has yet to make a way to get his B on c8 into play.}) 9... a4 10. Ba2 d6 {Again, 10...d5 was best.} 11. e5 $2 {Crude. This is no longer good. Simply castling was the best choice. Then the position would be about even.} dxe5 12. Qxc6+ {The lone Q isn't going to cause any damage, but even after 12.O-O white has few prospects..} (12. O-O Be7 13. Bg5 O-O 14. Re1 {Black stands wejj.}) 12... Bd7 13. Qf3 Bd6 14. Bg5 Rc8 {[%mdl 32]} 15. Bxf6 {Anxious to simplfy. Black's not going to trade Qs of course. Now he also has the g-file.} gxf6 16. Qe2 {Defending the c-Pawn. White's position is pretty bad.} Rg8 17. Qh5 {This threatens mate and attacks the h-Pawn, but white's position remains hopeless because black has a series of tactical blows.} Qe7 18. O-O Rxc2 19. Qxh7 Rg6 20. h4 (20. Qh8+ Qf8 21. Qxf8+ Bxf8 {This enables him to bring the B into play with ...bh6. White's position is so passive that ot can be considered lost.}) 20... Bc6 21. g3 {Black has a won position, but his next move came as a shock!} Rxg3+ $3 {[%mdl 512] Blackl finished with a flurry.} 22. fxg3 Rg2+ 23. Kh1 Rxb2+ 24. Kg1 Rg2+ 25. Kh1 Rxa2+ 26. Kg1 Rg2+ 27. Kh1 {and I resigned here before black could move.} (27. Kh1 Rxg3+ 28. Kh2 e4 29. Qf5 Rg7+ {and white has to start shedding material to delay mater.}) 0-1
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