Author: Francois Bertin
Date: 06:48:48 07/20/99
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On July 20, 1999 at 06:23:44, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>On July 20, 1999 at 04:25:05, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>There was an earlier game in the Noteboom somebody -- perhaps you -- posted
>>here, with Rebel 10.0 as white vs. Chess Tiger. The opening was also a
>>Noteboom, and the verdict of the poster of the game was that Chess Tiger simply
>>fell into a bad opening line. I looked at the game, and it was straight out of
>>"Play the Noteboom", by Mark van der Werf and Teun van der Vorm. The game
>>followed Maggeramov - Sherbakov, Moscow 1992 all the way to move 32. From the
>>book: "Black has sufficient compensation for the exchange. The light squares on
>>White's kingside are terribly weak. The first threat is 32...Bh3+ and wins."
>>All the same, Rebel got in f4 and went on to win very shortly thereafter. I was
>>going to take a harder look at the line, because if White is really winning
>>there then Black needs to deviate somewhere earlier... but I've been busy, and
>>haven't gotten around to it yet.
>
>Interesting comment. I have seen some more comp-comp games
>with this line and none of the programs was able to show
>adequate compensation for Black.
>
>Thus I think the human verdict of 'sufficient compensation'
>might be wrong. It might be a good idea to try this out in
>some testgames using the best programs. Still, I must admit
>that I don't trust the line for Black any longer.
Is it possible that this compensation is of a long term, positional nature, an
area where chess programs have traditionally been weaker than humans
(i.e. GMs)? It would be interesting to see what are the statistics of this line
in games played between GMs.
Could someone post the game score in PGN?
Best regards,
François Bertin
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