Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:11:29 06/24/98
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On June 24, 1998 at 11:46:06, Eran wrote: >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 I don't think there is any controversy here at all. Rxe6 loses. It will lose against a computer. It will lose against a GM. It will lose against an IM. Who cares if it wins against masters. We can already do that without tossing material out the window... and self-attacking...
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