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Subject: Re: Rebel 10 welcome tournament game 3 replayed

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 20:55:33 10/29/98

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On October 29, 1998 at 12:23:49, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote:

>So here's the replacement of game3 of the Rebel welcome tournament, after there
>were doubtful moves in the autoplayer score of the original game 3.
>
>Once more Rebel game won by excellent positional skill.

It is games like this that shaped my response to the CCC opinion Poll on
GM's recognizing the play of a computer. In that poll I went with they would
after many games, not just a few. Rebel's pieces all landed on nice squares
and the win seemed effortless. As you say a very nice positional win. The
placement of the Rooks, the well placed Knight and the control of the centre.
Not sure how one could label white's play as computer-like in this example.



 Black never got the
>initiative or significant play on the dark squares, like black often tries (at
>certain risks) in the Modern Benoni defence.
>
>Rebel10 played the first move out of book with 14.h3.
>Mchess7 nevertheless stayed in book until move 20!
>I could not find this variation, beginning with 13...h5, in any human games or
>theory.
>Perhaps some of you are more successful in doing so.
>Someone - if interested - could replay the game with Rebel9 or Rebel 8 to see if
>moves 14-20 are played by these versions as well, and if move 21 is the first
>digression between the Rebel engines.
>
>This time the notation is real pgn:

Thanks for this.
>
>[Event "40/120"]
>[Site "Wuppertal"]
>[Date "1998.10.29"]
>[Round "3"]
>[White "Rebel 10, 200MMX."]
>[Black "Mchess7, 200MMX."]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "A77"]
>[Annotator "DF"]
>[PlyCount "93"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. Nf3 Bg7 8. Be2
>O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 Nbd7 11. a4 Ne5 12. Re1 a6 13. Nf1 h5 14. h3 Nh7 15. f4
>Nd7 16. Bd3 Ndf8 17. Be3 Bd7 18. Nd2 Qc7 19. a5 Rad8 20. Bf2 Kh8 21. Nc4 Bb5
>22. Nxb5 axb5 23. Na3 b4 24. Nc4 Nd7 25. Qa4 Qb8 26. a6 b5 27. a7 bxa4 28.
>axb8=Q Nxb8 29. Rxa4 Kg8 30. Ra7 Bf6 31. Rea1 Re7 32. Ra8 Ree8 33. Kf1 Be7 34.
>R8a7 Bf8 35. Bh4 Rd7 36. b3 Kg7 37. e5 dxe5 38. Nxe5 Rxe5 39. fxe5 Rxd5 40. Bc4
>Rd7 41. e6 fxe6 42. Bg3 Kf6 43. Bxb8 Rxa7 44. Rxa7 Ng5 45. Ra6 h4 46. Bf4 Kf5
>47. Bxg5 1-0
>
>Rebel 10 tournament games played so far against
>
>Fritz5		1-1
>Mchess7	        1-0
>
>
>Regards
>from Dirk



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