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Subject: Re: Is the Rebel Grandmaster challenge off?? Has anyone heard anything?

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 13:59:30 06/23/99

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On June 23, 1999 at 01:49:38, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On June 22, 1999 at 22:47:04, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On June 22, 1999 at 22:27:51, odell hall wrote:
>>
>>>thanks
>>
>>This is what Ed told me just before he left for parerborn.
>>
>>--------
>>The second game is planned end of this month. But the GM isn't
>>responding to my last email, perhaps he is out of the country playing
>>a tournament.
>>
>>I hope he will respond before I leave to Paderborn so I can make the
>>official announcement.
>>
>>Ed Schroder
>
>The GM has responded in the meantime. We most probably will play July 3.
>Hope to make the announcement soon. Rebel will play on the Paderborn
>hardware (I hope). On this hardware Rebel would not have lost the game
>against Rohde :-)
>
>Ed Schroder

Ed, I don't think Michael Rohde would have had that much chance of the full
point with just the new extensions either, allowing Rebel to play 23. Rxb4.
I'm just a very average clubplayer and my PC is still just the old 386 at 33Mhz,
no less, (Chess in 1990  :-) ) so the following  analysis will probably contain
huge holes and had to be cut short. But here goes a possible continuation with
the help of Rebel ECTool:
23. Rxb4 dxe3 24. Rxe3 Rxe3 25. fxe3 b6 26. Qa7 Bg4 27. Qf7 Rc8 28. Ra4

Here the last evaluation was: 16.00 0.63 Rb4-a4 Qd8-e8 Qf7xe8+ Rc8xe8 Ra4-a7
g7-g6 Kg1-f2

Black was allowed some more time than White,  trying to avoid typical computer
moves for Black (They are still there I'm afraid). Almost all the moves for
white were also played under simulated tournament control, 2 hrs. per move on my
machine...
So White probably wasn't worse. Another interesting question is if with the new
king safety extensions Rebel could have carried out the Black attack, if not
under tournament conditions then maybe at longer time controls. At least the new
version with the improved Rebel6 extension would have played 22. Qb6-d8 instead
of 22.Qb6-a6 if I'm not mistaken? Well, I'm going to try this  when the new
Rebel CP comes out anyway.




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