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Subject: Re: CM5555's Brilliant Theoretical Novelty in the Scotch!!

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 04:19:26 11/06/98

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On November 06, 1998 at 05:54:01, odell hall wrote:

>
>>Hi CCC
>>
>> I would like to share this exciting game with the group. In my view It is the
>>most astonishing chess game between two computers I have ever seen!!. Rebel 6.0
>>although it is a now old program shows it still has sting. At move 8..
>>chessmaster goes out of book with d6 which I believe is a theoretical novelty.
>>It then follows this idea up with the astonishing 10..Bh3!!! the most incredible
>>move I have ever witness from a computer!. Also I discovered this position is a
>>very good illustration of Rebel10 Anti Grandmaster Feature, Rebel9 does not find
>>this move after ten minutes, yet rebel 10 on my cyrix233 finds the move in
>>30sec! I think that the position itself would be a classical example of an anti
>>grandmaster move!! because the complications are so incredible, I doubt many
>>humans could correctly navigate.
>>
>
>>tried it on my Rebel10 but could not reproduce 10...Bh3 within an hour on ap
>> k6/266.  Maybe you did use EOC or some special settings?
>Ernst-Jan.
>
>
>Are you sure you have your Anti-grandmaster option set to smart?

Yes, sure, I'm using the default options which is antiGM=smart, however, when I
switch to antiGM=strong, it finds the move in 21 seconds on 8 ply, but switches
back to Qg6 at 03:49 on ply 10 and stays ther through ply 10, 11 and 12,
afterwhich I stopped it.

Ernst-Jan



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