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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