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Subject: Re: Photos from the 5 th World Computer Chess Championship, Cologne 1986

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 11:41:01 03/13/01

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On March 13, 2001 at 11:27:01, Johan Havegheer wrote:

>On March 12, 2001 at 15:38:21, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>ha - there is a picture called "total view".
>>good shot !!
>>i think you can see
>>dieter steinwender (publisher of computerschach and spiele)
>>and frederic friedel (chessbase) on this picture.
>>frederic was there with a laptop. i remember he typed in round-comments.
>>
>>they kneel next to each other and watch prof. berliner.
>>Dieter has his classical gesture, with his right hand at his beard.
>>normally when having this gesture, he says: "ja ja ja jaaaaaaa!"
>>
>>i think on the picture "total view" i can see ed schroeder.
>>and on his left side this must be jan louwmann !! unbelievable. how young they
>>look.
>>
>>when i am right rebel plays bebe. bebe is the box in front of the desk below.
>
>Yes you are, Thorsten. In this game Rebel lost the championship against BEBE
>due to a bad endgame. I think Rebel played on a bitslice 18Mhz and there were
>some troubles in that endgame for rebel.

10 Mhz.

Rebel blew a totally won end-game position due to lack of passed pawn
knowledge.


>The official Rebel 5 version (Mephisto)
>would have won the game easily (if i remember ??).

Of course I did my home work!

Anyway it was a good thing Rebel lost because at that time Rebel was
not better than the mainframes. For that I had to wait 6 years :)

Ed


>Johan
>
>>
>>thats really a picture of the past !!! i still remember this championship
>>very good.



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