Game #26 - Difficult to follow

This game was a hard-fought game. I maintained equality against Stockfish for 42 moves with the black pieces until my human instincts blinded me to the fact that the Rule of Ratios would have recommended something different from what I had assumed. After all, I am human, not a computer to follow a strict line of coding from start to finish. But I am happy that I tried.

And by the way, for those of you who didn't see me answering the criticism I received regarding my Lichess rating, here's my answer:
Rating Climb #01 - Hitting 2400 - 123 rating points in one day!

The Game

Rule of Ratios:
Correspondence Game #02 analysis:

Lessons from this game:
> Be rigid with your methods until the scoresheet is signed.
> Be attentive so you don't miss out on any details
> Chess may not be so complex after all (I mean, I did maintain equality for 42 moves?!)

Rule of Ratios...

1. Get a list of all the possible legal moves and exclude moves that are not fit for consideration (for example, if a move hangs a queen for no reason, then you should exclude it as it clearly cannot be a good move).
2. Evaluate the Effect of one of the above moves. To evaluate the effect, see how much attack you have against the entities you are trying to attack compared to the possible defenses for the opponent (Attack: Defense ratio).
3. Evaluate the Drawback of the same move. To evaluate the drawback, see how much attack the opponent has against the weak entities in your position compared to the possible defenses for you (Attack: Defense ratio).
4. Calculate the Effect: Drawback ratio of the above move.
5. Do the same for all the other moves from the move list taken from the first step and pick the move with the highest Effect: Drawback ratio (with the effect side being higher) for calculation.
6. Calculate till you reach a static position and evaluate the position when you do so to make sure your move is okay.
7. Exclude the moves that failed the calculation test and play the move with the highest Effect: Drawback ratio.

This is my algorithm. Of course, this won't make a person who just got into chess a master in one go. This still requires training. It requires experience. Using common sense to cut down the breadth of the search tree (amount of moves you have to calculate), evaluating the effect and drawback of a move, knowing when you've reached a static position, and evaluating the resulting position, all these tasks require knowledge and experience. But with this algorithm, the amount of calculation and the knowledge you will need are minimal, because you already have an average idea about which moves have a chance of being chosen as the best move.

This is my final product of 3 years of work. Who knows? maybe in 10 years, all of this will change and I will even become the World Chess Champion using a completely different algorithm. But that's for the future to decide. For now, I am going to wrap up this article with some things I learned from writing these and a quick shout-out to my club:

What I learned from this series...

Playing these games against Stockfish, analyzing them, and explaining my thought process to the large audience which I've accumulated from all my Lichess articles is not the easiest thing in the world. But this has proven to be rewarding. Through this series, I have learned to focus more on my presence, which has improved my performance at things like music, painting, logic puzzles, literature, and many more subjects. My grit power has also been greatly enhanced as dedicating this much to a mentally exhausting game like chess is not something that anyone could do. Besides the things I already said, the uncertainty of the human mind, the abundance of mistakes in day-to-day activities, and the power of not giving up are just a few things I have learned from making this article series. I hope you all are also learning something from reading my article series just like I am, and last but not least,

The Club of Believers...

I have decided to create a new club for all of the people out there in the chess world who believe we can make a comeback against the machines we built decades ago to beat us at our craft of chess. Join The Club of Believers today. In this team, we try to discover an algorithm that will be able to defeat Stockfish consistently in a series of games. But no algorithm will be of use without practice. So, after reaching 20 members, I will contact @jeffforever to register our team for the Lichess Bundesliga! We already have 7 members in the team, we just need 13 more! This is the beginning of a new story. We can win the Bundesliga because we are believers! We can do anything we set our mind on. So I invite all my viewers to join this awesome club to look for the perfect algorithm and improve your level with constant training together with me.

External links

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@felew699 (No videos yet. I am still working on it)
Twitter: https://x.com/felew699
Against Stockfish: https://lichess.org/study/2guM490P
Opening Study: https://lichess.org/study/xeTeuu3A
The Club of Believers: https://lichess.org/team/the-club-of-believers

Special Thanks to...

Grammar Editor: https://app.grammarly.com/
Game playing site: https://chessui.com/#
Practicing and blog writing site: https://lichess.org/