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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