Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 06:45:25 02/24/02
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On February 24, 2002 at 06:57:50, Derrick Ford wrote: >Did i miss it in an earlier thread? I wrote something here: http://site2936.dellhost.com/forums/1/message.shtml?215261 Something official is in preparation for the Rebel Home Page, so far it states: Remarkable: 1) After the matches against Arthur Yussupov and Vishy Anand and GM John van der Wiel Rebel now even after 4 matches still keeps its unbeaten status playing matches against strong human chess players. 2) No draws, 4 wins all with white. Game-1: The super grandmaster survives a king attack, moves to an equal ending, refuses a draw offer, overrestimates his winning chances and suddenly finds himself in a mate net. REBEL leads the match with 1-0. Game-2: The super grandmaster strikes back, REBEL underestimates an upcoming king attack, the computer fights back and is able to survive but the remaining ending is lost. The match is in balance 1-1. Game-3: The perfect game. The super grandmaster beaten by a flawless king attack, one of REBEL's best games ever. Rebel leads again, now with 2-1 and can't lose the match anymore. Game-4: The super grandmaster must win and launches a king attack, REBEL defends well and the super grandmaster is forced to go for the ending, from there the super grandmaster teaches chess, REBEL loses track and is outplayed, a highschool example how to play the ending. The match is over ending in 2-2, the super grandmaster has survived or was it the computer? 3) GM Loek van Wely about the match: You can not play your own style against the computer, that's about close to suicide, you must play the anti-computer strategy and be well prepared, I played about 100 games against REBEL as part of my preparation. More suited stuff for this forum: 1) Like last year against GM van der Wiel the friendly atmosphere and sportmanship was heartwarming. There was a small incident during game-1 about the 3th time control, a misunderstanding between the arbiter and the 2 players, it was solved instantly. The incident: 1 hour before the match it was agreed to play a different time control, that is: 40/120, 20/60 and thereafter 30 seconds Fischer, this to avoid time control troubles for the human as happened last year and thus lift the match to a higher level of competition. When the game arrived at move 60 I wanted to change Rebel's time control to Fischer 30 seconds. The arbiter said no, I had to wait till one of the 2 clocks (Rebel or van Wely) would pass to 00:00. I protested because this would seriously hurt Rebel's time control mechanism, the arbiter gave in and I was allowed to change the time control. All happened in whisper mode. Then when the clock of van Wely showed 00:00 the arbiter warned van Wely that from now on the 3th time control was also valid for him. This was quite unfair to van Wely suddenly faced with only 30 seconds for each move. Loek van Wely looked surprised but continued the game without saying anything. After the game the three of us decided this wasn't exactly a success and agreed that for the remaining 3 games the 3th time control would start on move 60 and not when one of the clocks showed 00:00. Game-2: I was horrified by Rebel's play especially 12..Rc8?? All the time Rebel had the good move 12..Nxe5 13.dxe5 d4! with good counter play as best variation until it moved to Rc8? with a 0.01 better score at the last moment. [d]r2q1rk1/pb2bpp1/1pn1p2p/2ppN3/3P1P2/2PBP1P1/PP1NQ1P1/R3K2R b KQ - 0 1 Still Rebel perhaps could have saved the game with 13..Nxe5 but it played 13..Bd6? and after that it is already over as nothing can stop whites king attack. Juicy is 12.Bg3?! [d]r2q1rk1/pb2bpp1/1pn1p2p/2ppN3/3PnP2/2PBP1B1/PP1NQ1PP/R3K2R b KQ - 0 1 Loek van Wely about the 12.Bg3 move: I would never play such a bad move against a human, but from experience I know most computers will take the bishop. My comment: there is nothing wrong taking the bishop as long as it was followed by 13..Nxe5 14.exd5 d4! and black has excellent play and a mighty bishop pair. Game-3: van Wely was impressed by Rebel's abilities to play the king attack. Mind you, beating a 2700+ player in the area where humans are supposed to be superior to the silicon is something truly remarkable. It's like riding the perfect golden race at the Olympics, in this case the perfect game. I am as proud on this game as a little child can be getting his first diploma at school tying his shoelaces in a bow. There were so many good moves in this game I can hardly say which one was the best, there was: [d]r2qk2r/3nbppp/npp1p3/p2pP3/P2P4/1N2BN2/1PP1QPPP/R4RK1 w kq - 0 1 14.Rfc1! (going for 15.c4) [d]rn1q1rk1/4bppp/npp1p3/p3P3/P1RP4/1N2BN2/1P2QPPP/R5K1 w - - 0 1 16.Nbd2! (going for Ne4 preparing the king attack) [d]r2q1rk1/4bppp/npp1p3/p3P3/PnRPN3/4BN2/1P2QPPP/R5K1 w - - 0 1 18.Nfd2! (making space for the white queen to g4) [d]r2q1r1k/2n1bppp/1pp1p3/p3P3/PnRPN1Q1/4B3/1P1N1PPP/R5K1 w - - 0 1 20.Ra3! (destination h3) [d]r2q1r1k/2n1b2p/1pp1pp2/p2n2B1/P1RPN1Q1/R7/1P1N1PPP/6K1 w - - 0 1 23.Rh3! (spectacular of course but nothing serious for a computer) [d]r3q2k/2n1br1p/4pp1B/1p1n4/p2PN2Q/7R/1P1N1PPP/2R3K1 w - e6 0 1 28.Rg3! (the only move to make progress, I was pleased as Punch with this move) [d]4q2k/2n1br1p/4pp1B/1p1n4/3PN2Q/r5R1/3N1PPP/2R3K1 w - e6 0 1 30.Nf3!! For me this was the best move of the game, it came at the very last moment. All the time Rebel was going for the (also good) 30.Nb3 + Nc5 plan but 30.Nf3 going directly for the black king is much more effective. 30.Nf3 opens the door for all kind of tactical shots with Ne5. When I saw the move I was horrified, I thought Rebel had blew it as the move looks so unnatural while 30.Nb3 + Nc5 seemed so obvious. Same feelings in the analysis room, everybody thought 30.Nf3 was a bad idea. Later of course the opinions changed as true strength of 30.Nf3!! became clear. [d]4q2k/2n1br1p/4pp1B/3n3Q/1p1PN3/r4NR1/5PPP/2R3K1 b - e6 0 1 31...Rxf3 (desperation) After the game I asked Loek why not 31...Lf8! He looked suprised, showed me the position after all the exchanges and said, "this is a lost ending, I am not going to play a lost ending". That's how the giants of chess think folks! They don't think in scores like 1.35 (Rebel's evaluation), they don't even consider moves like 31...Bf8! The organizers were very pleased with the progress of the match, no boring draws, human and silicon bloodshed all over the place, each day. The organizers already have big plans for next year making it a yearly fixed event. My thanks go to Loek van Wely who was willing to risk his reputation to play Rebel. I wish him my very best in his chess career. Thanks also go to the organizers Jan van Reek, Daan Brorens and others. Jan van Reek was responsible for all analysis on the main-site, Jan is a known person in the chess world, many chess books come from his hand. Special thanks to Geurt Gijssen the arbiter, Geurt is a truly amazing man, he travels all over the world being the arbiter of many important GM tournaments, Geurt was the only accepted arbiter for the famous Kasparov-Karpov matches, his stories about the heroes of chess during our conversations were truly entertaining. Chess is fun... Ed
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