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Subject: Re: DB will never play with REBEL, they simple are afraid no to do well

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 22:18:13 10/14/99

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On October 15, 1999 at 01:03:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 14, 1999 at 23:32:26, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On October 14, 1999 at 17:41:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>><snipped>
>>>Again, I have seen no program other than DB that can take that game after the
>>>'bad moves' and win it.
>>
>>No program could win strong humans in this opening but the point is that I
>>believe that in this game kasparov played weaker than an IM.
>>
>>I did not say that the opening was wrong but that kasparov was not prepared for
>>it.
>>
>>I believe that he did some bad moves and not only one
>>when the first of them was Qe7 instead of fxe6
>
>the main point here was that on DB's first non-book move, it did a very deep
>search and found a +3 evaluation or so.  No one else was able to reproduce that
>without a 24+ hour search.  I don't remember (now) where it came out of book,
>I do recall that the operator was very nervous and was glad to see the big
>+ eval.

My memory gives > +1.5 on its first search out of book, but I dunno about 3.
Anyway, it saw overwhelming compensation for the piece "sac" (<grin>), at
tournament time control.

Dave



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