Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 09:16:15 06/13/99
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On June 13, 1999 at 00:38:20, odell hall wrote: >Hi > > > I must admit I was a little stunned by Rebel's Loss to michael Rohde last >month , in it's 40/2 encounter. I expected rebel to atleast pull out a draw. >However, After visiting The Gambit Soft homepage today I just realized that >Michael Rohde is not an ordinary grandmaster, but Quite strong! He is Rated at >50th! in the World weighing in at 2589! No doubt the result may have turned >out differently had rebel seen the simple 26. Bg2!!. My view is that rebel >basically played very well, unfortunately it drifted into a position that >favored the human being which was strategical in nature. My advice to Schoeder >is to take alittle bit more time in preparing your opening book, to prevent such >positions in the future. I noticed from Rohde's commentary that he had no major >critisims of rebel's play, but thought it was mostly reasonable. Hopefully we >will hear more from Rohde on the game in his Monthly Chess life Article!. Odell, This is exactly the kind of chess that computers should be playing. It is fairly certain that they excel at tactics. Now is the time to get algorithms that are sound positionally. We learn from mistakes and just because we find that something is dangerous ie Nitroglycerin, doesn't mean that we won't use it again. Next time we'll be more careful. Explosively, Tim Frohlick
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