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Subject: Re: Rebel 9 is in first position in a strong local tournament.

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 11:40:28 11/27/97

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>Posted by Manuel Rodriguez Blanco on November 27, 1997 at 10:54:21:

>Rebel 9/PMMX225/64MB, Hiarc 6/PII266/64MB and CM5000/PII300/64MB are
>playing in the stronger tournament made in Dominican Republic.

>Time control is 2H/40M. 1H at finish.

>The human participant are:
>7 of our national champions including the actual.
>4 of our MI
>1 CUBAN MI
>several FM


>The first position are:

>1       Rebel 9        7.5/8
>2       Hiarc 6        6.5/8
>3-5     HUMANS         6.5/8
>6-8     HUMANS         6.0/8
>9       CM5000         5.5/8

>The players had recognize the strength of REBEL 9. congrats Ed.

Thanks, but can you post the games?



>In the last round REBEL 9 make a draw with black against one of the
>stronger player of the country. Here i have a comment and a question for
>Ed.

>The reason of the draw was that the human had to repeat position with
>less than 1 minute for make 6 moves !!.  3 move before the human had a
>completely winning position that he can not realize because time
>trouble.  The winning position was demonstrated with out doubt with a
>post morten analisis with the computer.  The Rebel 9 problems begin with
>a very bad move in the begin of game.  Here are the data:

>Rebel 9 black, PMMX225 60 mb Hash, Level: 1:30/40Move

>1.Cf3 Cf6 2.g3 b6 3.Ag2 Ab7 4. 0-0 e6 5.d3 Ad6?? after that program
>couldn recover until human's time trouble.  The human take aprox. 2
>minutes for make 5.d3 and REBEL 9  out of book whith this move take 3:39
>for make Ad6??.  The question is why a Strong program choose Ad6 in this
>position?  Ed.?

I haven't seen Rebel playing such a move for years. Bd6 is penalized
less because of the developed bishop on b7 but apparently here this
doesn't work good enough to avoid the ugly Bd6. I thought we had
all this.......


>This move was a key move for the whole game.

Of course.


>I think that Reti Opening is no very completely in rebel 9 too?

Direct this to Jeroen :)


>After the game some of the player sayed that 5. ... Ad6 was a mistake of
>the operator but reproducing the game and wait 2 min for make 5. d3 the
>program choose Ad6 again but if we reproducing the game a maked 5.d3
>without wait then Rebel 9 choose 5. ... d5!   ?

>Well, after all Rebel 9 is my favorite program. Other question Ed.

>When we can see rebel  accepting chess engines like hiarc, junios, etc.,
>i think that this will be a GREAT IDEA!!! for rebel 10 or rebel 11.

This is only possible in a Windows environment. Plans are ready. I am
currently busy rewriting Rebel from ASM to C++ in order to port the
engine to Windows. Sigh.


>Also asking draw option, resig option and more time leves :)

And an engine improvement of 200-300 points I assume :))

No kidding but the Rebel9 questionnaire is very informative which way
to go. Very good user input! I can recommend it to my competitors :))

- Ed Schroder -


>Thanks

>MRB.



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