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This was a surprise! I was practicing opposition today against Stockfish and was trying to either mate as fast as possible or defend for as long as possible. To my great surprise one defence went much better than I would ever bet.

http://el.lichess.org/tUhjIqYLSfuP

I came to realize two things after that. Blundering is something more natural and usual than I thought it was and also, machines can misscalculate from time to time even in such positions, so I should be more skeptical when trusting their analysis.
The results of live AI is less reliable than a computer analysis because far less time is allocated for them to evaluate into the depths by brute force compared to the computer analysis.
@Stivis, that wasn't a blunder. That was a gambit. You might mess up and not eat the pawn and the AI will move the king to f7. Its possible prior move choice of Ke6 would have resulted to a stalemate, anyway. At least, with this, the AI still had a chance of winning. :3
I don't see how this can be called anything but a blunder. You say that as if "you might mess up and not eat the pawn" and Ke6 resulting in stalemate are equally likely outcomes, or even close to equally likely. It's pretty clear e6 leads to a draw, and white's path to promotion is pretty straightforward after Ke6. It's a terrible move.
Is it somehow connected with a bunch of takebacks? :)
Ke6 is not stalemate. White always wins here. Stockfish appears to be lacking some endgame heuristics. The analysis is still sound.
@reallyLost, why would you think "11 Ke6 is not a stalemate"? Where exactly can the black king move after that point?

@Little_Bobby_Tables, of course, not eating the pawn would be a terrible move for black. I was simply hypothesizing why the AI (white) went for that seemingly silly move of leaving the pawn alone. The point is 11 Ke6 ends the game whereas that strange move by the AI leaves room for (black's) error, no matter how unlikely. Getting the dangling pawn eaten also results in a draw so there's no risk of losing for white, especially since it is not a timed game.
@reallyLost, it's my fault for not explicitly clarifying that it was move 11 that I was referring to. I was the one that mentioned Ke6 in the first place. (I'd like to think that it can easily be inferred from my post, #3, but I guess I was wrong.) I was talking about the final moves of the game snippet. ~,~'

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