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Subject: Re: Dutch Open CC (7) Leiden(NL): Ruffian-Rebel 1-0

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 09:35:04 10/25/03

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On October 25, 2003 at 12:20:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 25, 2003 at 09:44:26, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>
>>On October 25, 2003 at 08:22:12, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>
>>>On October 25, 2003 at 08:08:05, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 25, 2003 at 07:24:57, Theo van der Storm wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Dutch Open CC (7) Leiden(NL): Ruffian-Rebel 1-0
>>>>>
>>>>>Pairing of round 8 of Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship 2003
>>>>>Table  White                     - Black                                Results
>>>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------- round  8
>>>>>  1    The Baron           ( 4 ) - Ruffian             ( 5½)    11-  8
>>>>>  2    Chess Tiger         ( 5 ) - The King            ( 4½)     1-  3
>>>>>  3    Rebel               ( 4 ) - Deep Sjeng          ( 4½)     2-  6
>>>>>  4    IsiChess            ( 4 ) - Ant                 ( 3½)     5-  9
>>>>>  5    Zzzzzz              ( 2 ) - Tao                 ( 3½)    12-  7
>>>>>  6    Nullmover           ( 1½) - XiniX               ( 3½)    13- 10
>>>>>  7    GNU Chess           ( 0 ) - Diep                ( 3½)    14-  4
>>>>>
>>>>>Ranking after round 7 of Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship 2003
>>>>>No.  PNo.  Name                       Score WP    SB     PS    rat.  TPR  W-We
>>>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>  1.    8  Ruffian                     5.5  27.0  20.50  22.0  0000  -   0
>>>>>  2.    1  Chess Tiger                 5.0  29.0  20.00  19.5  0000  -   0
>>>>>  3.    6  Deep Sjeng                  4.5  27.5  16.75  19.0  0000  -   0
>>>>>        3  The King                    4.5  26.5  14.75  16.5  0000  -   0
>>>>>  5.    2  Rebel                       4.0  30.0  15.75  18.0  0000  -   0
>>>>>        5  IsiChess                    4.0  24.5  10.25  17.5  0000  -   0
>>>>>       11  The Baron                   4.0  19.5   7.00  14.0  0000  -   0
>>>>>  8.    4  Diep                        3.5  30.0  14.50  17.5  0000  -   0
>>>>>       10  XiniX                       3.5  22.5   7.75  12.5  0000  -   0
>>>>>        7  Tao                         3.5  21.5   7.25  14.0  0000  -   0
>>>>>        9  Ant                         3.5  19.0   6.00  12.0  0000  -   0
>>>>> 12.   12  Zzzzzz                      2.0  21.0   2.50   8.0  0000  -   0
>>>>> 13.   13  Nullmover                   1.5  23.0   1.00   5.5  0000  -   0
>>>>> 14.   14  GNU Chess                   0.0  22.0   0.00   0.0  0000  -   0
>>>>>
>>>>>Pairing of round 7 of Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship 2003
>>>>>Table  White                     - Black                                Results
>>>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------- round  7
>>>>>  1    Ruffian             ( 4½) - Rebel               ( 4 )     8-  2  1-0
>>>>>  2    IsiChess            ( 3½) - Chess Tiger         ( 4½)     5-  1  ½-½
>>>>>  3    Tao                 ( 3 ) - Deep Sjeng          ( 4 )     7-  6  ½-½
>>>>>  4    The King            ( 3½) - Diep                ( 3½)     3-  4  1-0
>>>>>  5    The Baron           ( 3 ) - GNU Chess           ( 0 )    11- 14  1-0
>>>>>  6    XiniX               ( 2½) - Zzzzzz              ( 2 )    10- 12  1-0
>>>>>  7    Ant                 ( 2½) - Nullmover           ( 1½)     9- 13  1-0
>>>>>
>>>>>Theo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks Theo
>>>>
>>>>Quick look , I think that Rebel made a mistake at move 37, be it in a
>>>>complicated midgame, but I'm still curious why Rebel played 37...Bxb5? Q5T
>>>>thinks it is bad..
>>>
>>>It was a lost position.
>>>The main mistakes in this game are 20...Nb6 and 21...Bg6.
>>>Rebel sacrificed a pawn and got nothing for it in return.
>>>
>>>Michael
>>>
>>
>>You are probably right Michael. Those moves 20...Nb6 and 21...Bg6 do seem to
>>give Ruffian a lot of play on the Kingside. I have four copies of Q5T running in
>>ECTool now, -which by the way is not possible with Rebel 12 under ChessPartner
>>running at the same time, it totally freezes the system if only one DOS-box with
>>Rebel under ECTool is added, Sorry Lex, no error messages only Ctrl-Alt-Del will
>>help in most cases so I can end CP as a task (After which I get the message,
>>translated from Dutch "This program (i.e. ChessPartner) does not react, it has
>>ended or it is waiting for input, do you want to terminate this task now?
>>Unstored data will be lost" -. Q5T would also have played 20...Nb6 after a while
>>and sees no difficulties ahead, +0.34, expecting the white Queen to go to b3 for
>>some reason:
>
>If you use a personality that underestimates material you get wrong results.
>
>The problem was that Rebel underestimated material or did not see deep enough
>and if you use a personality that even underestimates material more than Rebel
>you cannot get better moves.
>
>Uri


Rebel simply did not see deep enough.  Simple as that.

Djordje



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