Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:16:08 09/05/99
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On September 05, 1999 at 12:49:02, Peter Hegger wrote: >On September 05, 1999 at 04:38:57, Paulo Soares wrote: > >(Snip) >> >Independent the problem happened with Rebel, I think GM >>Hoffman had the merit of choosing an opening that the programs >>have difficulty to play. >> >>Paulo > >I watched the game at ICC yesterday and the general consensus among the >spectators was that playing a Benko was an *awfully* risky undertaking against a >computer. I have to agree. A healthy Rebel 10-5 that wasn't playing lemons like >Ra2 (forget which move) or the terrible Rg4, just to name a couple, wouldn't >have lost the extra p quite so quickly IMHO. >Full credit to Hoffman though. He pounced on Rebel's errors swiftly and >accurately. >I hope to see them paired up again sometime. >Regards >Peter Rebel was definitely broken. I (and others) noticed that Crafty was getting huge eval swings after several of rebel's moves (around the Rg4 time). At one point it was +.9 (for rebel) the next move it went to -1.5 and dropping, although the GM didn't find Rh4 that was pretty well crushing and (I think) played Nd3 instead. But you could easily see something was wrong... As the two programs don't differ by 3 pawns generally...
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