Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 03:42:59 10/21/98
Just like in the case of Junior5, I'd like to welcome the new Rebel10 with a little welcome tournament. All 10 tournament games (40/120), two games each with white and black against top programs, are played on two 200MMX machines with 64Mb each. The Slav opening followed Yussupov-Nogueiras (Belford 1988) to move 15. Then Rebel with its first move out of book played a theoretical novelty, and a sound one! At first sight, it looks quite dangerous for white to keep the queen unguarded in the line of the black rook c8. Fritz5 first tried to keep its knight on e4 with 16...Qd5, waiting for 17.Nd2 Nxd2 =. But Rebel10 continued with the strong move Ne5! At this point Fritz5 still calculated that the following 17...c5, opening the c-file, would keep the game balanced. But after 14.Nc4 its evaluation dropped, finally seeing that there would be no sufficient compensation for exchanging a black rook to knight plus pawn. Whatever tactical manoevering Fritz tried then, Rebel10 always found the right decisions (like keeping the queen pawns and giving the central d-pawn before), and after exchange of the black rook the endgame was won for white. If anyone has doubts about the position after move 46 he can tell me how he thinks black could escape the loss. But there is definitely no chance. Rebel10 showed consideable positional skill in this game (16.Bd3, 16.Ne5! for example) and Fritz, misjudging the position after leaving book, was not able to counter this with tactical shots, though trying exactly this by all means even with reduced material. Nice game. Rebel10 - Fritz 5.16 [D18] 40/120, 21.10.1998 [DF] 44160kB, Power.ctg=7520805 pos 1.c4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3 e6 7.Bxc4 Bb4 8.0-0 Nbd7 9.Qb3 a5 10.Na2 Be7 11.Nh4 Be4 12.Nc3 0-0 13.Nxe4 Nxe4 14.Nf3 Ndf6 15.Qc2 Rc8 [white out of book] 16.Bd3 [black out of book] Qd5 17.Ne5! c5 18.Nc4 cxd4 19.Nb6 Rxc2 20.Nxd5 exd5 21.Bxc2 Rc8 22.Bxe4 Nxe4 23.exd4 Rc2 24.Rb1 Rc4 25.Re1 Kf8 26.f3 Nf6 27.b3 Rxd4 28.Be3 Rd3 29.Rbc1 d4 30.Bf2 g6 31.Rc8+ Ne8 32.Rb8 b6 33.Rxb6 Bb4 34.Rb1 Nc7 35.Be1 Bxe1 36.Rxe1 Nd5 37.Rb5 Ne3 38.Kf2 Rd2+ 39.Re2 Nd1+ 40.Ke1 Rxe2+ 41.Kxe2 Nc3+ 42.Kd3 Nxb5 43.axb5 Ke7 44.Kxd4 Kd6 45.h4 f6 46.g4 h6 1-0 Once more: these little "welcome tournaments" have not much statistical relevance. But they *do* show some characteristics of a new program while playing against some strong opponents. So please have a look at the content of the games rather than only at the outcome. Regards from Dirk
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