Notable games[edit]

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Season Date and game Notes (material calculations

White Black Result Source/s
number title info excluding king)

27 September Taking the knight results in eventual

2010 (Match 3, mate or taking the queen results in a
Game 3 of Round Stockfish Houdini 1-0 pawn, knight, bishop each for black [14]
23, Game of the vs a knight and rook each plus 3
Month 1) pawns

1 August 2010
(Tournament 1, The final position is a simple case of
Pre Game 3 of Shredder Naum 0-1 not being able to stop all the [15]

TCEC Round 1, Game opponents passed pawns

of the Month 2)

26 November
2010
(Tournament 5,
Houdini Rybka 1-0 Checkmate will happen soon [16]

Game 3 of
Round 8, Game
of the Month 3)

Houdini sacrifices three pawns for

28 January 2011 piece activity and defeats the
(Elite Match, reigning computer chess
1 Rybka Houdini 0-1 [17][18]

Round 1 of Game champion Rybka in this game,

1) popularly dubbed as the "Houdini
Immortal".

21 April 2011 (Elite

Houdini exploits minor inaccuracies
2 Match, Game 2 of Houdini Rybka 1-0 [19]

by Rybka with a sacrifice.

Round 19)
 25 March 2013 Shredder, on the brink of being
4 (Stage 2b, Game 3 Shredder Gull 1/2-1/2 checkmated, pulls off a miraculous [11][12][13]

of Round 14) escape.

21 October 2013 Though a rook vs 3 pawns + 1

(Elite Match, Game Gull Komodo 0-1 bishop = 5 points against 6, the [20]

2 of Round 19) pawns are storming to promotion

5
November 3,
Thanks to its heavy depth-oriented
2013 (Stage 3,
Houdini Stockfish 0-1 search, Stockfish out-calculates [21]

Game 4 of
Houdini, and wins the game.
Round 17)

As black, the link suggests Qa7 but

April 10, 2014
6 (Stage 3, Game 1 Komodo
leads to a position about 25 moves
later where white basically can do a
king vs queen mate (however there
Stockfish 1-0 [22]

is another passed pawn, which can

of Round 1)
be eventually used as a 2nd queen
in a 2 queen electrical fence
checkmate)