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

Author: odell hall

Date: 15:06:15 11/06/98

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On November 06, 1998 at 11:33:00, Howard Exner wrote:

>On November 06, 1998 at 00:45:49, 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


IN answer to howard exner question about the bench mark for rebel10 of my new
cyrix 233 I get a benchmark of 2511
>>grandmaster move!! because the complications are so incredible, I doubt many
>>humans could correctly navigate.
>
>Bh3 did not lead to a quick knockout but does have that startling effect
>if played against a human. In the long run a move like Qg6 may be as good
>or better than the dramatic Bh3. It reminds me of Karpov's old quote which ran
>something like, "many roads lead to Rome. If there is a sharp combinational path
>or a quieter positional path I will choose the quieter road". That is not the
>exact quote but the meaning is close to what Karpov was saying.
>
>Your new Cyrix chip seems to be working out nicely. What is the Rebel bench test
>score for it? - not the one from the startup assesment but the one where the
>three test positions are ran.



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