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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