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 ) > > > >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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