Rybka: 4
Benjamin: 3
Schedule
Game 1 (d2 pawn): Rybka – Benjamin 0-1
Game 2 (c7 pawn): Benjamin – Rybka 1/2-1/2
Game 3 (b2 pawn): Rybka – Benjamin 1/2-1/2
Game 4 (a7 pawn): Benjamin – Rybka 0-1
Game 5 (e2 pawn): Rybka – Benjamin 1-0
Game 6 (f7 pawn): Benjamin – Rybka 1/2-1/2
Game 7 (g2 pawn): Rybka – Benjamin 1/2-1/2
Game 8 (h7 pawn): Benjamin – Rybka, Thursday Aug 9, 4:00 pm EST (US East Coast time), 10:00 pm CET (Central European time)
Click on the link of each game to replay the game.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Game 8, 33.Nf3?
33. … g4? JB’s only problem is the clock – again.
When will Susan openly admit that she uses Rybka for her analysis? 🙂
(I bet she does!)
I (and I’m sure others) would like to read Susan’s opinion on the world’s strongest chess program. For instance, does she agree that Rybka plays quite a human style of chess?
Richard,
England.
Richard: isn’t SP entitled to use whatever aids she sees fit. There’s no ‘crime’ here – so nothing to admit to.
I wasn’t at all suggesting that Susan was committing a crime by not admitting that she employs the wonderful and peerless Rybka for her analysis.
Richard,
David.
Correct – that is not what you were suggesting … 🙂
Richard can I ask you what engine you use for your home analysis?
I use Fritz but next engine I hope to purchase Rybka. Everyone knows it is the best. I am surprised Joel did so well against Rybka.
I do think it is fair to give the human a little extra time over the computer’s time. I do not like games decided on time. I want to know who played the better chess without respect to time.
Susan
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4485697096191119048&q=chess&total=333&start=10&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=5
This is an interesting video that deserves its own topic. I enjoyed this one. It might inspire others to do the same. Nice effort.
anon (7:37) — I have in my collection of commercial chess engines: Rybka 2.3.2a, Hiarcs 10 and Fritz 10, plus dozens of strong ‘free’ engines.
I will certainly upgrade to Hiarcs 12 when it is released (I think Hiarcs 12 is going to be quite awesome!), and of course I’ll upgrade to Rybka 3 when that’s out. Let’s bear in mind that Fritz 11, whenever it arrives, might have been improved a great deal since version 10 (I’d imagine that ChessBase hopes so!).
GM Hikaru Nakamura has boasted that his “brain is better than Rybka six days a week” (I presume that that’s *without* any handicaps). I would like to see a no-handicap match between Rybka and Nakamura to put his somewhat egotistical and self-assured boast to the test.
What is it with (most strong) chess players and their monstrous egos?
Richard,
England.
His brain is better than Rybka’s eval 6 out of 7 days a week? haha, now thats humor… this 2600+ player has always employed the coward defense vs rybka and other similarly classed engines to try and close the position and eventually draw by repetitive piece shuffle(usually after 150-200 of these repetitive moves) to eeek points from the outrageously overrated fast blitz (C)3400-3600+ computers. This is how in-fact he gets so elevated on the top rating lists. There is no mystery here at all I’ve beaten these same programs myself using similar techniques and i’m only 1500+. 99 times out of 100 when I have seen him play actual “chess” he losses very efficiently to it so this 6/7 days a week BS is just fluff and ego self back patting.