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Subject: Re: My views on the Match

Author: Hans Christian Lykke

Date: 20:57:12 07/27/98

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On July 27, 1998 at 21:56:32, Howard Exner wrote:

>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?
>


Well, I don´t think so.

Rebel 10 evaluation for move 25 for h4 was

02:17   11.00   + 1.47


Rebel 9 on my P200MMX

h4  11.00 + 1.43
h4  12.00 + 1.44

Ke2 11.00 + 1.07
Ke2 12.00 + 1.04


Regards

Hans Christian



>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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