Author: George Piles
Date: 16:28:52 07/22/02
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On July 22, 2002 at 19:19:31, George Piles wrote:
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> In my opinion I think that ED Shroeder has solved some Major Problems in
>Computer Chess Programming in His latest Program RebelXP. RebelXP appears To
>Understand when it's king is being attacked Much better then other Programs, I
>use as an example the below game which was Played in 1999, the game Was between
>a Uscf 2265 rated Master and Hiarcs6 running on a Cyrix 233, the Human Managed
>to Crush Hiarcs mercilessly in 19 moves!! Over the Years I have used this game
>as a benchmark for predicting the Skill of various new programs, none seemed to
>understand the position as well as Rebelxp. Here is the game followed by the
>choices made by Rebelxp
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>[Event "?"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "??.??.????"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "2265 USCF master
>[Black Hiarcs6.0 Cyrix 233]
>[Result "*"]
>[WhiteElo "?"]
>[BlackElo "?"]
>[ECO "B23"]
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>1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bc4 Bg7 6. O-O Nf6 7. d3 O-O
>8. Qe1 a6 9. a4 Bd7 10. Qh4 Nb4 11. f5 gxf5 12. Bh6 Nxc2 13. Rac1 Bxh6
>14. Qxh6 Nb4 15. Ng5 e5 16. exf5 d5 17. Bxd5 c4 18. dxc4 Qb6+ 19. Kh1, black
>resigned
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>Alternative moves chosen by RebelXP
>13
accidently hit the enter key before I finished, anyway here is the Alternate
moves chosen by rebelxp
8...Na5 getting the light squared bishop off the dangerous
diagonal 10..e6!! preventing the F5 push 12.Bh6 0 sec Here rebel finds
the "Human" move! For some reason most programs don't see this very simple move
12...Bxf6 avoiding the destructive 12..Nxc2???? 14...Nd4!! much better then
the text (nd4) 15...Kh8..the only move to avoid immediate destruction
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