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Subject: Rybka error of judgement

Author: James Constance

Date: 08:05:29 12/16/05

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Yeah, Bb7 is poor.  But a far worse "error of judgement" was castling queenside
- I wonder how many other engines consider this a good move!? I note also from
this and other games, Rybka playing the knight in front of the c-pawn.

regards

James

On December 15, 2005 at 18:50:41, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On December 15, 2005 at 17:52:40, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On December 15, 2005 at 16:42:11, James Constance wrote:
>>
>>From my own experience I doubt the Rybka Beta engine is particularly strong
>>against humans.
>
>I want to see facts.......! Also that particularly is tricky.
>
>>
>>Your win was OK. Rybka didn“t come out of book in a totally lost position.
>>
>>The French defence is certainly a bad opening choice for a computer against
>>humans, but 7...Bb7??? is one of the worst strategical moves I have seen from a
>>top program.
>
>:-)
>7...Bb7????? WOW! Even my cat can avoid it.......
>
>But we have to forgive Rybka as the game was blitz 5'
>Rybka avoids Bb7 at 1:23 in my PC although it should not even think about it....
>
>>



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