Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 05:51:19 12/30/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 07:20:46, 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 a3 45. h3 a2 *
>40. Ngxf5 a4 41. Nc2 Kc7 42. Rxd8 Rxd8 43. Nd6 Ra8 44. Kg2 *
27.a3! and it's a whole different ballgame....
First pawn sac is okey - as so the position
after 15.-Rhg8.
Then some queer moves followed - resulting in
pawn sac n:o 2 - and black has really no comp.
But why shall everything be "correct" and
scientific verifiable?? Boring boring said
the child and smiled...;-)
/S
>
>[d]r7/1pk5/2pN4/4P3/5P2/p7/2N3KP/8 w - - 0 45
>
>After the obvious 44. ... a2, 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. :-)
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