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I truly believe GMs are overrated. Please Rybka challenge a talented FM instead. Dont forget, Kramnik as an FM played better.
But in the 1st game at least (I didn’t see the 2nd one), GM Fontaine played more or less like it would be expected from a FM or IM too if he’d go for anticomputer play without compromises. It’s just uncommon for a GM to play like that.
In his match against Deep Fritz 2006, Kramnik has proven that he basically could draw each game, even without such appearant anticomputer tricks, except for very rare oversights or if he needs to take risks if a draw is useless. That wasn’t Rybka but I think it was a 4 or 8 cpu computer and surely was a tactical monster beyond imagination.
Are the moves of these games with GM Fontaine posted anywhere?
Are the moves of these games with GM Fontaine posted anywhere?
Yes.
[Event “?”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2007.09.27”]
[Round “2”]
[White “GM Fontaine”]
[Black “Rybka”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “B17”]
[WhiteElo “2567”]
[BlackElo “3100”]
[Annotator “F-Kling”]
[PlyCount “74”]
1. d4 {Normally they should play a Pawn handicap game now, but it seems like
they changed their mind…} c6 2. e4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6.
Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Bc4 Bf5 8. c3 e6 9. h3 Bd6 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 h6 12. Bd3 Re8 13.
Ne5 c5 14. Bf4 cxd4 15. Bxf5 exf5 16. Qxd4 Qb6 17. Qxb6 axb6 18. a3 Rad8 19.
Rad1 $2 g5 $1 (19… Nh5 20. Bh2 Bxe5 21. Bxe5 Rxd1 22. Rxd1 Rxe5 {wins also.})
20. Bc1 (20. Bh2 Bxe5 21. Rxd8 Bxh2+) 20… Bxe5 21. Rxd8 Rxd8 22. Rxe5 Rd1+
23. Kh2 Rxc1 24. Rxf5 Ne4 25. Rb5 Nxf2 26. Rxb6 f5 27. Kg3 Rc2 28. Rxb7 Nd3 29.
a4 f4+ 30. Kf3 Rf2+ 31. Kg4 Rxg2+ 32. Kf5 f3 33. Kf6 Rxb2 34. Rg7+ Kh8 35. Rf7
f2 36. Rf8+ Kh7 37. Rf7+ Kg8 0-1
[Event “?”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2007.09.27”]
[Round “1”]
[White “GM Fontaine”]
[Black “Rybka”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “A46”]
[WhiteElo “2567”]
[BlackElo “3100”]
[Annotator “F-Kling”]
[PlyCount “192”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 h6 $5 4. Bxf6 (4. Bh4) 4… Qxf6 5. c3 (5. e4 {
In this line white normally gets a strong center for the bishop pair.}) 5… d6
6. Nbd2 Nd7 7. e3 Qg6 8. Qb1 Qxb1+ 9. Rxb1 Be7 10. Bd3 {It’s not clear to me,
if the white position compensates the bishop pair now. of course white has
some advantage in development.} b6 11. Ke2 $5 {
since the queens aren’t on the board anymore… why not :)} Bb7 12. Rhg1 g5 13.
Be4 d5 {of course black doesn’t want to give up the bishop pair.} 14. Bd3 g4
15. Ne1 h5 16. Rh1 Bd6 17. g3 h4 18. Ng2 {White tries to block the position.
This can be a good strategy against computers.} h3 {
now white can really hope for a draw by building a big “stonewall”.} 19. Ne1
Ke7 20. f3 {if now f5, white can play f4 and the position is totally blocked.}
Nf6 $1 {keeps the possibility of f6 followed by e5 to open the position.} 21.
f4 c5 22. Kf2 c4 23. Be2 b5 24. Nc2 Bc6 25. Ra1 a6 26. Rhb1 Rhb8 27. a3 Bd7 28.
Ke1 Rb7 29. Kf2 Rg8 30. Ke1 a5 31. Kd1 Nh5 32. Ke1 f5 {
ok, the position is blocked in the center now…} 33. Kf2 Nf6 34. Ke1 Rc8 35.
Kd1 Kf7 36. Ke1 Ra7 37. Kd1 Kg6 38. Ke1 Raa8 39. Kd1 Rc7 40. Ke1 Rh8 41. Kd1
Rb8 42. Ke1 {looks like we have tow wait for the 50 moves rule and hope that
Rybka doesn’t play a4…} Bc6 43. Kd1 Kg7 44. Ke1 Kh6 45. Kd1 Kg6 46. Ke1 Rbc8
47. Kd1 {can you guess white’s next 35 moves?} Bd7 48. Ke1 Ra7 49. Kd1 Rb7 50.
Ke1 Rbb8 51. Kd1 Bc6 52. Ke1 Be8 53. Kd1 Bd7 54. Ke1 Bc6 55. Kd1 Be8 56. Ke1
Rb6 57. Kd1 Rb7 58. Ke1 Bd7 59. Kd1 Rcc7 60. Ke1 Rb6 61. Kd1 Be7 62. Ke1 Rb8
63. Kd1 Rbc8 64. Ke1 Ra7 65. Kd1 Ra6 66. Ke1 Rb6 67. Kd1 Rbb8 68. Ke1 Rb7 69.
Kd1 Rcc7 70. Ke1 Rb6 71. Kd1 Rb8 72. Ke1 Bd6 73. Kd1 Ra7 74. Ke1 Be7 75. Kd1
Rc8 76. Ke1 Rac7 77. Kd1 Ra8 78. Ke1 Rd8 79. Kd1 {
now the 50 moves rule comes closer} Rf8 80. Ke1 Rh8 81. Kd1 Rg8 82. Ke1 {
the last pawn move was in move 32, so…} b4 83. axb4 $2 (83. Kd1 $1 b3 $4 $11
{the most engines would play like this…}) 83… axb4 84. Ra5 Rb8 85. Rba1
bxc3 86. bxc3 Rb3 $1 87. Ra7 Rxa7 88. Rxa7 Rxc3 89. Kd1 Bd8 90. Kc1 Bb6 91. Ra1
Nh5 92. Rb1 (92. Bf1 Nxg3 93. hxg3 Bxd4 94. exd4 h2 95. Bg2 Rxg3) (92. Nf1 Rb3
{and the rook is free. Just ask him, he’s happy :).}) 92… Nxg3 93. Bd1 Ne4
94. Rxb6 Nxd2 95. Kxd2 Rd3+ 96. Ke1 g3 0-1
I watched the games online and saw something that seemed strange to me. In game 1 “Rybka” firstly had lost on time (at least it had been shown so), but then for some reason her clocks were brought back to about 15 minites and the game was continued. As we know, Fontaine eventually lost.
Maybe anybody could comment?