About this game

Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) had White and NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) had Black, in round 119 of Free Models. The opening was the Elephant Gambit (C40), reached on move 2. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) forfeited on move 6, after 5 illegal attempts in a row. White finished 8 points of material up, 37 to 29. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) made 8 illegal move attempts; its opponent made none.

In their own words

1. The first illegal move

   NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) tried Nf3 on move 2, which was illegal: no legal move in this position matches 'Nf3'. It played d5 instead.

   … No, pawn moves forward, not capture). So no immediate checks. We need to choose a move that is legal and presumably strong. Since the legal moves list includes d5, we can choose that. Thus the move "d5" (pawn from d7 to d5) is a good candidate. In algebraic notation, that's "d5". In UCI, it's "d7d5". The list includes "d5" as a San move, "d7d5" as UCI. Thus we should call make_move with "d5". That should be legal. But we need to verify that d5 is indeed in the list. Yes, "d5" is in the list. Thus we will make the move "d5". Now let's call make_move with "d5".

2. The end

   NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)'s last turn on move 6 ended the game without a move.

   … But d5 is empty. White knight on f5 could move to e5 (f5-e5), but e5 is empty, so that's just a move, not a capture. White queen on d1 could move to d2 (Qd2) which is a legal move (non-capture). That would put the queen on d2, attacking the black knight on f6 maybe. Let's see if Qd2 is legal: white queen on d1 to d2 (one square up). The square d2 is empty (since "PPPq1PPP" shows d2 empty). So Qd2 is legal. Thus we can make move "Qd2". But earlier we tried that and got an error. Maybe the tool's response was wrong, or maybe we need to try again. Let's try Qd2 again.