Author: Howard Exner
Date: 00:03:31 08/05/98
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On August 04, 1998 at 21:21:55, odell hall wrote: >My first win against Rebel 8.0 In well over 50 games at 40/2hrs!! This Game >shows that Even your best programs like Rebel still have some problems that >needs to be solved. 5.Bb5?? was horrible and In my opinion the losing move. >Processor was a 486/100 dx4 time control 40/2hrs my uscf rating was 1937 Touch >move strictly observed!! > > > >[Event "Match game 2"] >[Site "Ok City"] >[Date "1997.12.18"] >[Round "?"] >[White "Rebel 8.0"] >[Black "Odell hall"] >[Result "0-1"] >[WhiteElo "1937"] >[BlackElo "2400"] >[ECO "A01"] > >1. b3 d5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. e3 e5 4. g3 I played through the game and noticed Rebel out of book after move #2. Also here on move 4 I could not get Rebel 8 to duplicate the move g3. At what ply count did Rebel play g3? Mine wanted to play Bb5 here on move 4 which isn't so bad but g3 doesn't look right here. >Nf6 5. Bb5 Bd6 6. Nf3 Qe7 7. d4 exd4 >8. Nxd4 Bd7 9. O-O a6 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Ba4 h5 12. Nd2 h4 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 >14. Nf3 hxg3 15. fxg3 Qh6 16. Qe2 Bc5 17. Nd4 O-O-O 18. b4 Bb6 19. Rad1 >Rde8 20. Rf4 g5 21. Rf2 Kb7 22. c4 dxc4 23. Rxf7 Rxe3 24. Qxe3 Qxh2+ 25. >Kf1 Qh1+ 26. Qg1 Bh3+ 27. Kf2 Qd5 28. Bxc6+ Qxc6 29. Rf3 Bg4 30. Ke1 Bxf3 >31. Nxc6 Bxg1 32. Na5+ Kc8 33. Nxc4 Bxd1 34. Kxd1 Bf2 35. g4 Re8 36. Nd2 >Rd8 37. Ke2 Rxd2+ 38. Kxd2 Kb7 39. Ke2 Bh4 40. Kd3 Kc6 41. Kc4 Kd6 42. >Kd4 Be1 43. a3 a5 44. bxa5 c5+ 45. Kc4 Bxa5 0-1 You made the black pieces find nice active squares. The win was well deserved. > >I am posting this game for two reasons: 1. It was the very first time I had >beaten rebel 8.0 in over 50 games at 40/2hrs 2. I hope that Ed Schroeder may >happen to see it and productively use it to make corrections to his program. I >might add that I think rebel is an excellent program and in my opinion it plays >the most correct Chess, I like the way it balances tactical play with a nice >strategical style. Inspite of this however it still possess some positional >flaws as this game illustrates 5. BB5 was obviously bad. My strategy during the >game was to take rebel out of it's massive opening book as soon as possible by >making a reasonable non-book move and hope that rebel might make some >strategical mistake that I could capitalize on, as it turned out this strategy >worked to perfection in the above game. My uscf rating at the time was 1937 the >processor is a 486/100 dx4 , time control was 40/2hrs. Were the other Rebel 8 settings at default?
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