GM Benjamin (2575) – Rybka(C) [C41]
03.01.2008
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Be2 0–0 7.0–0 c5 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.Re1 Be6 10.b3 a6 11.Bb2 Re8 12.Bf1 d5 13.exd5 Nxd5 14.Nxd5 Qxd5 15.Qxd5 Bxd5 16.Rad1 Rad8 17.a3 Kf8 18.Bd3 g6 19.Kf1 b5 20.c4 bxc4 21.Bxc4 Bxc4+ 22.bxc4 Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Rb8 24.Rd2 f6 25.Rc2 Kf7 26.Ke2 g5 27.h3 h5 28.Kd1 g4 29.hxg4 hxg4 30.Nh4 Bd6 31.Nf5 Be5 32.Kc1 Kg6 33.Ne3 Bf4 34.g3 Bxe3+ 35.fxe3 Ne5 36.Bxe5 fxe5 37.Rf2 Rb3 38.Kd2 Rxa3 39.Rf8 a5 40.Ke2 a4 41.Kf2 Black wins 0–1
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Do humans have any chance against machine anymore?
No. Especially cry babies like Benjamin who opted out of the US Champs because he felt slighted because of the conditions. Who does he think he is? These GM’s are getting to be worse cry babies more and more each day.
Instead of draw odds for the match as a whole, someone will program their chess engine to play Armageddon Chess.
Then play Human vs. Computer, where the computer must win the game, and each draw is considered a win for the Human.
Maybe Armageddon is the only future for man vs. machine?!
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Rybka won by have slightly more active pieces in the 4pawns -to- 4pawns endgame. After 15. Q:Q it became unlikely the game would be decisive in the middle game.
A wise and common anti-computer strategy by Joel, an early exchange of queens makes chess quite draw-ish.
GeneM
FRC-chess960 , CastleLong.com
Humans can no longer beat the top computer programs … especially because its now easy and affordable to assemble the necessary hardware. 10 years ago IBM’s Deep Blue cost well over $100,000 for the hardware. Today, for under $3,000, you can get a nice quad-core processor that is more than fast enough to beat almost all GMs … and might not be beatable by even the strongest humans.
Actually, the machine on which Deep Fritz 10 beat Kramnik in Nov.-Dec. 2006 was an ordinary quad-core PC. To judge from raw speeds in some ChessBase photos, DF10 running on my quad-core 2.66Ghz Macintosh with “Boot Camp” Windows emulation is even 10% faster. I bought my Intel MacPro in March, but the machine was the same as introduced in Aug. 2006.
Moreover, once during that match I got my 3-year-old single-core 2Ghz Pentium-M laptop running Fritz9 up to the same 19-ply search depth as DF10—because I had predicted 3 moves ahead and had started running from that position 5-10 minutes earlier. Which means even a little hand-held lappie can…ugh, I don’t want to complete this sentence!
The fish taunts me!
The fissssshhh!
It was amazing how Rybka won easily that drawish endgame!
Or maybe Benjamin did have a bad day.
What would Bob Fischer say? Hope Ben is getting good money for embarassing himself.
That’s all that this is about. Benjamin wanting a pay day other than teaching kids the 4-move checkmate. Only things he’s good for.
Perhaps Joel will someday come clean and explain the truth about how IBM beat the greatest of all time 10 years ago.