Power of the Bishop Pair | Leela Chess Zero vs Houdini | TCEC CUP2 Finals

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Leela Zhess Zero vs Houdini
TCEC Season 14
Queen’s Gambit Declined: Semi Slav Defense (D31)

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bb4 6. e3 b5 7. Bd2 a5 8. axb5 Bxc3 9. Bxc3 cxb5 10. b3 Bb7 11. Bb2 Nf6 12. bxc4 b4 13. Bd3 O-O 14. O-O Nbd7 15. Nd2 Qc7 16. Bc2 h6 17. Re1 Rfe8 18. h3 e5 19. d5 Nb6 20. e4 Rec8 21. Rc1 Nfd7 22. Re3 a4 23. Rg3 g6 24. Qh5 Kh7 25. Qf3 f6 26. h4 Qd6 27. h5 g5 28. Qf5+ Kh8 29. f4 a3 30. Ba1 Qe7 31. fxe5 31… Nxe5 32. Bb3 Nbd7 33. Nf3 Qh7 34. Qh3 Rf8 35. Nxe5 Nxe5 36. Re3 Ba6 37. Qg3 Rae8 38. Bd4 Qg7 39. Bc5 Rb8 40. Bd6 Rfd8 41. Bxb8 Rxb8 42. Ree1 Qd7 43. Red1 Kg7 44. c5 Bb5 45. Qe3 Ng4 46. Qh3 Ra8 47. Re1 Rf8 48. Bd1 Ne5 49. Qxd7+ Bxd7 50. Re3 Rc8 51. c6 Be8 52. Rb1 Nc4 53. Rd3 Nb2 54. Rb3 a2 55. R3xb2 axb1=B 56. Rxb1 b3 57. Bg4 Rxc6 58. dxc6 Bxc6 59. Rxb3 Kf7 60. Bf5 Ke7 61. Kf2 Be8

Final
Leela versus Houdini then.
Leela again seemed in control of the game and defended without any problems when she was with black and with white created some problems for Houdini but without anything much more than just applying some pressure where Houdini managed to draw eventually.

So after first 7 games were draws, last game(8) before tiebreaks, was a very sharp and double edged opening Leela decided to get into, where she played some nice speculative attacking moves trying to apply pressure to the weak Kingside so Houdini had to be very careful, even though Houdini had a very strong counterplay with 2 advanced passed Pawns on the Queenside so Leela should had that in mind too. But Houdini played 2 suboptimal moves that can maybe even characterized as mistakes or blunders, but not that obvious mistakes though and more analysis is needed as position is crazy complicated, and Leela grasped the chance to attack! The attack went great and Leela played some nice attacking Chess and she played move 31 playing fxe5 with a +3.16 score while Houdini was at +0.47 and Stockfish dev 176 threads (that was kibitzing the game) didn’t see fxe5 and was preferring 31.Rf1 with +1.11. After Leela played 31.fxe5 and after 2 more moves having been played the 176 thread Stockfish jumped to +3.03 seeing indeed that Leela’s move was sound and superb.
After that it was more or less over so Leela went on to win and win the final and the CUP!

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