Author: Howard Exner
Date: 18:56:32 07/27/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 04:09:38, Ed Schröder wrote: >The second tournament game on Day-3 was also a very interesting >one. Again it was Rebel who took the initiative with the surprising >manoeuvre 14.Qd3 followed by 15.Qf3! > >Anand took almost 20 minutes for his reply 15..Bd6! >Wonderful chess! > >The remaining ending was very unclear. Although Rebel showed a >score of +2.xx after the Queen exchange I wasn't pleased with the >position at all! How close was Rebel in playing 25. Ke2 instead of h4? With a bit more time would it have played Ke2? It does demonstrate how humans and computers resolve positions at the board. A human player would survey the position and go into "red alert" mode when seeing that black has a strong rook on c2, combined with the two bishops slicing across the board. Asking, how can I avoid this mess, Ke2 would quickly become a candidate move for consideration. In other words our pattern recognition and selectivity can lead us to making reasonable moves. Computers I don't understand as well. Will they eventually recognize the elements of this position at move 25 and readjust their eval or will they need to resolve this position differently? Thanks Ed for throwing us computer chess hobbyists a party. Snaring Anand as competion and having the resulting games turn out so lively made for a fun event beyond my original expectations.
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