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Subject: Re: Rybka 32-bit is number one in CEGT rating list

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 05:44:34 12/07/05

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On December 07, 2005 at 08:10:37, Kirill Kryukov wrote:

With what book Rybka plays.....?


>Some of my observations about Rybka:
>
>1. Rybka is not afraid of doubled pawns. Shredder loves making double pawns to
>the opponent, it is very happy to do this. Rybka does not worry to have double
>or triple pawns, and with incredible coordination of pieces those doubled pawns
>become a fortress.

Yep, i noticed that too.......

>
>2. Rybka can organize a bishop and pawns into fortress. I've seen it already in
>several games for now - Rybka builds up a total fortress structure of pawns with
>bishop in the middle, somewhere near the center, paralizing the opponent pieces.
>This is sometimes funny to see. Shredder does not know what to do.
>
>3. Rybka hesistates to checkmate. It does not like to checkmate. When it has
>enough advantage to go for mate, it keeps doing other things! It eats up
>opponent's pawns, it promotes its own pawns, and finally checkmates when it has
>nothing more to do...

:-):-)
In none of the games i saw this happened, but anyway seems funny.....

>This is real funny, I observed it a few times now too. In
>one game Rybka took 25 moves to checkmate a king with two pawns with two queens,
>it first picked those two pawns, then played with that king a little more and
>finally it got tired and checkmated.. Vas was right to be ashamed of Rybka's
>endgame, there are things to fix there still.
>



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