Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 05:20:45 12/30/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 07:27:32, A. Steen wrote: >Unlike most of the crowd, at all stages I was confident Rybka would not lose >this game: > >http://wwwcs.uni-paderborn.de/~IPCCC/IPCCC2005b/pgn7.html > >[Event "IPCCC"] >[Site "Paderborn"] >[Date "2005.12.30"] >[Round "7"] >[White "Ikarus V0.36FR7a SMP"] >[Black "Rybka Beta w64 1.0"] >[Result "*"] >[ECO "B00"] >[TimeControl "7200"] >1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bd3 Nge7 6. Bg5 Be4 7. c3 h6 8. Bxe7 >Bxe7 9. Bxe4 dxe4 10. Nfd2 Qd7 11. Nxe4 O-O-O 12. Qe2 f6 13. f4 f5 14. Nf2 g5 >15. O-O Rhg8 16. Kh1 g4 17. Nd1 h5 18. Nd2 h4 19. Ne3 h3 20. gxh3 gxh3 21. Rf3 >Rh8 22. Qf1 Bf8 23. Rxh3 Bh6 24. Qf3 Ne7 25. Rg1 Kb8 26. Rg2 Qa4 27. Rh5 Qxa2 >28. Qh3 Ng8 29. Ndf1 c6 30. Rg6 Re8 31. Rgxh6 Nxh6 32. Rxh6 Rhg8 33. Qh5 Qxb2 >34. Qf7 Qxc3 35. Rxe6 Ref8 36. Qe7 Qxd4 37. Qd6+ Qxd6 38. Rxd6 a5 39. Ng3 Rd8 >40. Ngxf5 a4 41. Nc2 Kc7 42. Rxd8 Rxd8 43. Nd6 Ra8 44. Kg2 * > >[d]r7/1pk5/2pN4/4P3/p4P2/8/2N3KP/8 b - - 0 44 > >After the obvious 44. ... a3, Ikarus has absolutely no winning chances and would >be astoundingly lucky to draw (a power outage, maybe?). I stopped looking. > >While the above game is very far from a fine example of what Rybka is capable of >(it is more of what poor Ikarus was hoodwinked into permitting), I could thank a >few of the forum's "chess experts" for the amusing fantasies and wrong prognoses >they wrote about this game along the way. > >Black obtained three supported united passed pawns on the Q-side while the White >King was so magnificently placed on h1. Rybka's opponents do not properly know >how to handle the very unbalanced positions that arise from Rybka's Tal-like >sacs. So the theoretically unsound sac delivers the full point more often than >not, until the next generation of opponents evolves. > >My general evaluation of Rybka: >Much stronger than overly-staid Fruit, psychotic Shredder, berserk-monster >Fritz. > >'Extraordinarily dynamic middlegame: unbelievable Rybka, a killer grandmaster.' > >A. Steen strongly recommends Rybka - >* to patzers, to watch/study it play their other engines, and hopefully learn at >least a little therefrom; and >* to others, to play it themselves. > >Congratulations, Mr Rajlich. You clearly have (at least?) one super-GM on your >team. :-) Thanks for the nice words. We are always looking to add a super-GM or two to our team. Even ordinary GMs are on occasion acceptable .. :-) Vas
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