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Subject: Re: Shep Championship: Rebel 10 - Virtual II 1/2:1/2

Author: James Robertson

Date: 20:11:24 10/20/98

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On October 20, 1998 at 07:33:42, blass uri wrote:

>
>On October 20, 1998 at 05:12:56, Kai Lübke wrote:
>
>>Here's the game (PII-400, 128 MB, 40/120).
>>Rebel used its EOC database (set to "strong")
>>only once to favour 10...a5 which scored a draw according to the EOC. It kicked
>>in again around move 30 to discourage a move which looked terrible to me anyway.
>>:)
>>
>>Today follows match against Fritz 5.
>>
>>[Event "WC 98 III"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "1998.10.19"]
>>[Round "2"]
>>[White "Virtual Chess II"]
>>[Black "Rebel 10.0 EOC"]
>>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>>[ECO "C10"]
>>[WhiteElo "2635"]
>>[BlackElo "2630"]
>>[Annotator "Shep"]
>>[PlyCount "100"]
>>
>>1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bd7 5. Nf3 Bc6 6. Bd3 Nd7 7. Qe2 Be7 8.
>>O-O Ngf6 9. Ng3 O-O 10. b3 a5 {
>>Rebel out of book at +0,20} 11. c3 {Virtual Chess out of book at +0,25} 11...
>>Bd5 12. Ne5 c5 13. c4 Bc6 14. Bb2 cxd4 15. Nxc6 bxc6 16. Bxd4 a4 17. bxa4 Rxa4
>>18. Bc2 Ra3 19. Rfe1 Qc7 20. Bb2 Ra5 21. a4 Rb8 22. Rab1 Bd6 23. Bc3 Rxb1 24.
>>Rxb1 Ra8 25. a5 Be5 26. Bb4 Rb8 27. Qf3 Bd6 28. Bc3 Rxb1+ 29. Bxb1 Be5 30. Be1
>>Bd4 31. Ne4 Qe5 32. a6 g6 33. Qg3 Nxe4 34. Qxe5 Nxe5 35. Bxe4 Ba7 36. Bc3 Ng4
>>37. Bf3 Nxf2 38. Kf1 Nd3 39. Bxc6 Nc5 40. Bb7 Kf8 41. Bf6 Nd7 42. Bh4 f5 43.
>>Ke2 e5 44. Bg3 e4 45. Bf2 Nc5 46. Bd5 Ke7 47. Bd4 Bb6 48. Ke3 h5 49. h4 Ke8 50.
>>Bc6+ Kf7 1/2-1/2
>I do not understand the decision of draw.
>I think that white has a positional advantage.
>Maybe white cannot win but you cannot be sure about it in this position.
>
>Uri

I agree completely; White has a definate pull, with a passed pawn, bishop pair,
and pinning black's knight. Really, I think you should play this one out.

James



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