Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 15:17:51 12/25/05
Hello, I have a little bit of analysis from Emanuel and Sune about the games, pasted below. Those that followed the match may be interested to read it. (Apologies for the crude formatting.) Vas Emanuel Berg: It was interesting to try playing against the Rybka over ICC. In the first game I went wrong quite early and was faced with big problems after Qh5+ and Qh6. Perhaps ...Ne4 was a bit too optimistic. I thought I could get a nice position taking the pair of bishops, but he probably had dynamic compensation. Anyway if I play without ...f5 I guess my position would still be OK. In the second game I got the type of position that is usually difficult for computers. But I got short of time and chose the wrong idea, I guess that f4 was a slight mistake as I found out that my planned folow up Rf3 was not possible because of ...Re8 doubling and threatening mate on the first rank. This time control was a bit too short to make the game interesting enough all the way. Especially for me time is really important as I like to think a lot and find my own plans. If you are playing positional and just doing the standard moves it might be possible to play even against a computer, but this is not my way to play. Usually I try to get dynamic positions and to create something, but it does cost a lot of time. Perhaps I will try to play some more games against Rybka later on with another time control. Sune Larsson: About the games Berg-Rybka. I think Rybka was much more aggressive and creative than Emanuel expected...In the first game I think 6.-Ne4?! was a bit premature. 6.-c5 is better. After 8.-f5? 9.Qh5 white is just much better. It was a swift attack with un unusal theme (Nxh7). The second game was an interesting discussion between better pawn structure vs the bishop pair. Rybka played very dynamic and also liked this position as black. After 17.f4 I think white is slightly better but after 17.-Bc5+ black has counter chances. 19.c3 was possible for white instead of 19.h3 21.Rae1?! is the wrong way I think. Better is 21.Bc4 Ree8 22.Rad1 Rad8 23.Rfe1 and still slightly better for white (or maybe dynamic equality). 21.-Kh8! was a good move from Rybka - putting more pressure on white. 25.Nf3?! better 25.Bg6!? or 25.Bc4!? After 27.-fxe5 it's clear advantage for black. After 40.-Rg5 it's over and only a miracle could stop black from winning...
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