Game 2: AB-JChess vs jqe

AB-JChess vs jqe: 5 games read by both engines

131 moves

Game 2 of the post: one of 600 games between AB-JChess-20261031 and jqe on 2026-10-31, 4 seconds a move on 4 threads. AB-JChess has Red. The board faces the winner, AB-JChess (Red). The graph is both engines' chance for Red, AB-JChess teal and jqe orange. Wherever the two engines…

Black’s chariot takes a face-down piece on g1, on Red’s back rank.

The chariot takes Red’s advisor on h1 too.

jqe, with Black, brings the chariot home from h1 to h7 here. AB-JChess would keep it in Red’s camp, moving it to g1, and in both engines’ lines for that Black’s cannon then wins Red’s horse on e2. Our reading is that jqe wanted it home because Red’s chariot on d9 and soldier on b…

Red turns over the piece on f1, a soldier, and both engines now call the game about even.

Red’s soldier on d9 takes a face-down piece on d10, and both engines now have Red winning.

Black has no legal move: Red wins.