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Subject: Re: Rebel10/Fritz5 GMs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 01:04:04 07/28/98

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On July 27, 1998 at 21:29:35, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>>>Wish we knew more about why he adopted a more open and "normal"
>>>>style of play against Rebel, while simply strangling Fritz...
>
>>>Remember "anti-GM"?
>
>>>Perhaps Anand was forced too?
>
>>>- Ed -
>
>>Nice marketing.  :)
>
>>But anti-GM didn't make him castle queen-side in the first long game.  He
>>did that on his own.  I don't think an "anti-GM" strategy exists, much less
>>one that can force a GM to do something he doesn't want to do...
>
>Why should Anand play moves that are not optimal in his opinion?
>Quite dangerous IMO.
>


that is the $64,000 question, IMHO.  *why* indeed.

>I think you should re-read the goals of anti-GM, the why's, its birth.
>
>In the past at AEGON I have seen Rebel losing against grandmasters
>without any chance. After such a game it is very frustrating to realize
>your program didn't have just ONE little chance on counter play.


I agree... this happened to Fritz...


>
>anti-GM is about to deal with this problem. I don't know how good it is
>as 8 games is not much but in most of the 8 games it was Rebel who
>took the initiative which pleased me very much as this exactly is one
>of the goals of anti-GM.
>
>- Ed -


you certainly had the initiative...  but game 7 was an interesting one, because
here Anand seemed to abandon his strangulation strategy that worked so well
against Fritz.  I don't know of many players that would castle opposite in a
serious game against a computer, on general principles if nothing else...



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