OpenChess

I happened to pick up the 1/2016 KARL chess magazine in Frankfurt Airport today (only one bookshop seems to have chess magazines anymore, and I missed it in my April travels). On pages 50-53 there is an article by Moiseenko about human/computer matches, the latter playing on iPads.

There is Zimmermann (the main guy behind these) against Stockfish 3 (iPad) 15-minute game from Aug 2013, then SF5-Moiseenko from Aug 2014 (no hardware given), Zimmermann (2289) vs Shredder iPad, one hour game from Sep 2013, Moiseenko-Shredder (iPad) from Mar 2014 (two games). I will say more when I digest the German text.

The article starts by giving a couple of classic anti-computer positions (poor evaluations on blocked boards), then it gets into Zimmermann's anti-computer strategy, before the "main event", the Moiseenko-Shredder (iPad) match from March 2014. This was played at 15m+5s at the Chess Tigers Training Center in Bad Soden. Moiseenko had White in all 4 games, two with 1. e4 e5 and two with 1. e4 e6. He says "Ich verlor am Ende knapp und unglücklich mit 1,5:2.5." It then gives (with moves omitted until move 13) the drawn game, and Moiseenko's win via the "strategy", namely "1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nc3! (Ein Anticomputer-Zug. Klare Strategie: 1. Bringe den Rechner aus dem Buch. 2. Provoziere ihn, das Zentrum zu schließen!"

The editor Harry Schaack also tried the anti-computer strategy, and drew at least one blitz game by a board-blocking setup.
[White "Harry Schaack"]
[Black "Stockfish 7"]
[Result "*"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. Nf3 d4 5. Ne2 Bd6 6. g3 c5 7. Bg2 Nc6
8. O-O O-O 9. Bd2 Re8 10. h3 a5 11. Nh2 a4 12. f4 a3 13. b3 b5
14. f5 c4 15. g4 h6 16. Ng3 Be7 17. Kh1 c3 18. Bc1 Nh7 19. Nf3 Kh8
20. Rg1 b4 21. Ne2 Ng5 22. Nh2 f6 23. h4 Nf7 24. h5