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

Author: Reynolds Takata

Date: 13:08:23 11/06/98

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On November 06, 1998 at 14:49:44, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:

>The ChessBase7 'Big' Database of 875,000 games, shows 15 games with the move
>8...d6, between 1984 + '97, Starting with, Lorinczi,P (2205)- Borg,Geoffrey
>(2345), Thessaloniki Olm, [14] 0-1, 27, and DeVita,Gianni (2155)-
>Negrini,Claudia (2310), 0-1, 54.  Most of the games contine with 9.f4 or 9.Nxc6.
>White won 10 (67%), drew 4 (23%), & Lost 4 (33%). No one seems to have picked up
>on this nice sacrificial idea!
>
>Curiously, the Junior5 module, in CB7, favours 9...Bxe3 from the start, and
>continues to so for its entire search.  As far as I can tell, 9...Bh3 is not in
>its search here!  It continues the position with 10.Nxc7 Rb8 11.fxe3 Qh6 12.Nb5
>...Be6 13.Bxe6 fxe6 14.Nxd6 Qxe3+ 15.Kh1 Rxf1+ 16.Qxf1 Rf8 17.Qc4 0:01:47, after
>3 minutes...  Does this make sence?
>
>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!




Could you send me these games? and i assume also that they didn't even consider
the Bh3? (pgn, cbf, cbh )



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>On November 06, 1998 at 12:49:23, Reynolds Takata wrote:
>
>>After looking through my massive database collection of 5 million games, i could
>>not find 8.d6 so i believe it is a novelty in that it hasn't been played in a
>>tournament.  However strangely enough One of my programs has book on it well at
>>least for 1 move.  Nimzo 98 plays 9.f4 in book after 8...d6.  I don't know that
>>it is any better than Nb5, but if one knew of the complications in the line of
>>the game and was faint of heart, it might be the safer course. Bh3 is a
>>brilliant move just for the shock value of it, most players would blow 30
>>minutes on it before the shock wore off.  Also instead of taking on c7(which is
>>probably the best move) many players might retreat the bishop on c4 because they
>>might not be able to calculate how good taking on c7 is.  I have a sneaking
>>suspicion that retreating the Bishop and not taking on c7 could in the long run
>>be problematic for white.
>>
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>[Event "?"]
>>>[Site "?"]
>>>[Date "??.??.????"]
>>>[Round "?"]
>>>[White "Rebel6 P200pro G/30"]
>>>[Black "CM5555 P166mmx"]
>>>[Result "*"]
>>>[WhiteElo "?"]
>>>[BlackElo "?"]
>>>[ECO "C45"]
>>>
>>>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Bc4
>>>O-O 8. O-O d6 9.



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