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Subject: Re: Rebel9 found Re1xe6 in 1 second!!

Author: Eran

Date: 08:46:06 06/24/98

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On June 24, 1998 at 09:51:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 24, 1998 at 02:00:31, Eran wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 1998 at 01:12:06, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On June 24, 1998 at 00:49:24, Eran wrote:
>>>
>>>>Rebel9 found Re1xe6 in 1 second!!
>>>
>>>No ill will intended toward anyone, but doesn't Rxe6 *lose*?
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>
>>This is not about whether or not the move Rxe6 loses. The only thing is that I
>>tried to show to all of you that Rebel9 with different settings in the Option
>>menu clearly calculated faster with that specific chess position as mentioned
>>than anti-grandmaster chess software. Ed Schroder and anybody else may not know
>>that. So I just tried to show that to them.
>>
>>Now, as to the question of whehter or not the move Rxe6 loses, I cannot tell
>>clearly. It depends on who the opponent is and what his or her playing style is.
>>
>>Eran
>
>
>however, what's the point in finding settings in a program that suddenly
>makes it start playing *losing* moves?  That is usually *easy* to do.  THe
>hard part is to make it play *winning* moves...  :)

Okay, but if the move Bh6 is better than Rxe6, then I do not know why Rebel
won't play Bh6 after one or two minutes of calculation.

I think Ed Schroder believes that the move Rxe6 is a better anti-grandmaster
move for instance in hope to make Black becoming tangled. However, it sounds to
me that the move Rxe6 is subject to controversy; it looks like "chicken-egg
cycle." It seems too difficult to know for sure whether or not Rxe6 is a good
anti-grandmaster move right now.

Anyway, the anti-grandmaster features in Rebel10 are just an experiment. I hope
the anti-grandmaster chess software which Ed created would beat Vishy Anand in
July. I think that if the anti-grandmaster features are good, Ed would retain
them in Rebel10. Otherwise they would be thrown away. Correct me if I am wrong.

Eran



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