Can Mittens Defeat the Beth Harmon Bot?
Today, we have a rather legendary chess battle on our hands. Mittens, the mysterious 1 ELO kitten, will go up against the Beth Harmon Bot! Beth will be playing the White pieces, and Mittens will be playing Black. Who will emerge victorious?
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This video was made possible by the web archive (https://archive.org/web/). This archive saves snapshots of websites over time. We can use this to visit a snapshot of chess.com from the past! Specifically, we can go to an older chess.com webpage when the Beth Harmon bot was still around… As well as an older chess.com webpage when Mittens was still around. The below two links will directly put you on these two webpages if you are interested!
Link to play Beth: https://web.archive.org/web/202101051...
Link to play Mittens: https://web.archive.org/web/202301251...
NOTE: The archived sites are a bit buggy and are missing features (cannot sign in, interact with settings, etc.). But it still lets you play full games against the unlocked bots!
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MUSIC INFO:
TRACK 1: Quiet Place
TRACK 2: Genesis
Both tracks by Jonny Easton! / jonnyeaston
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SPOILER - GAME PGN:
[Event "Beth Harmon vs Mittens Bot Battle!"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "Feb 5, 2023"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Beth Harmon Age 22 Bot"]
[Black "MittensBot"]
[WhiteElo "2700"]
[BlackElo "1"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 Nc6 4. d5 Ne5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3 exd5 8.
exd5 Bd6 9. Bxc4 Qe7+ 10. Kd1 Nf6 11. h3 O-O 12. Re1 Qd8 13. Bd3 Bd7 14. Kc2 c6
15. Ne4 Nxe4 16. Qxe4 f5 17. Qd4 c5 18. Qc3 c4 19. Be2 b5 20. a3 Re8 21. Kb1 Qh4
22. Bf3 Rxe1 23. Qxe1 Re8 24. Qd2 f4 25. Ka2 Bf5 26. Qd4 Bc2 27. Bd1 Re4 28. Qd2
Bxd1 29. Qxd1 Qxf2 30. Qg4 Qc2 31. Qc8+ Bf8 32. d6 Qb3+ 33. Kb1 Re2 34. Qc5 Qd3+
35. Ka2 c3 36. Rb1 Bxd6 37. Qc6 Bxa3 38. Bxf4 Bf8 39. Be5 Re4 40. Qe6+ Kh8 41.
Qb3 Ra4+ 42. Qxa4 bxa4 43. Bxc3 Qd5+ 44. Ka1 Qxg2 45. h4 Qg4 46. Re1 Kg8 47. Rf1
Qxh4 48. Re1 Bb4 49. Re8+ Kf7 50. Rc8 Qh1+ 51. Ka2 Qb7 52. Rd8 Bxc3 53. bxc3
Qb3+ 54. Ka1 a3 55. Rd2 Qxc3+ 56. Ka2 Qxd2+ 57. Kxa3 g5 58. Ka4 Qb2 59. Ka5 Qb3
60. Ka6 Qb6# 0-1