Rybka v Joel Benjamin (Game 4)

[Graham Banks]

[Event ""]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round ""]
[White "GM Benjamin"]
[Black "Rybka"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco ""]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]

1.Nc3 a5 2.Nf3 a4 3.Nxa4 Nc6 4.Nc3 Nb4 5.Ng1 Na6 6.Nb1 Nb8 {/no a7 pawn/}
7.e4 e6 8.Nf3 d5 9.Nc3 dxe4 10.Nxe4 Be7 11.d4 Nc6 12.Bd3 f5 13.Ng3
Nf6 14.O-O Qd6 15.Re1 O-O 16.c3 Nd5 17.Bd2 g6 18.b4 b6 19.Qb3
Bf6 20.Re2 Nce7 21.Rae1 c5 22.bxc5 bxc5 23.c4 Nf4 24.Bxf4 Qxf4
25.d5 Qc7 26.dxe6 Ra6 27.Nf1 Rd8 28.Ne5 Rdd6 29.Nd7 Bxd7 30.exd7
Qxd7 31.Bb1 Kg7 32.Qb5 Qa7 33.Rd2 Bd4 34.Qe8 Nc6 35.Rde2 Bf6
36.Rd2 Nd4 37.h3 Re6 38.Rxe6 Rxe6 39.Qc8 Kf7 40.Rb2 Nf3+ 41.gxf3
Bxb2 42.Ne3 Bd4 0-1

Match score: Rybka - 2.0 Benjamin - 2.0

Link to discussion of the game on the Rybka forum:
http://www.rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybka ... id=1895#fp

[LaurenceChen]

I think that Joe played his worst in this game. He played like a patzer from move 32 onwards. He left his knight sitting in the back rank as if he totally forgot that he had a knight to play with. I think that was his mistake. He could have achieve the draw more easily if he started to develop his knight into play.

[Michael Sherwin]

The tremendous effort that any human has to exert in every single game against Rybka to simply not loose will make a patzer out of anyone after a few games!

Look at any 'normal' collection of top grandmaster games and you will see plenty of '?!', '?' and '??' notations. Everyone of these that a human makes against Rybka will make it harder and harder to not loose the game. Rybka will not so easily return the favor like another human would. The pressure will just keep increasing untill the human 'breaks'. Joel, having an extra pawn and Rybka having no opening book, helps Joel to struggle for some draws, but, that is about all.

Joel, as good as he is has not 'really' won a single game yet. He won a game only because of a programming bug. The win counts in the score, but, not in reality.

IMHO