Do you think Rybka can come back to ...

AdminX · Post by **AdminX** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:10 pm

Do you think Rybka can come back to ...

Win

or

Tie

or

Nither

The Match vs Zappa in Mexico???

Isaksen · Post by **Isaksen** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:26 pm

Rybka is a dead fish

swami · Post by **swami** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:50 pm

AdminX wrote:Do you think Rybka can come back to ...

Win

or

Tie

or

Nither

The Match vs Zappa in Mexico???

Good poll to determine how many over optimistic extreme rybka fanboi's are there(after such results)

Uri Blass · Post by **Uri Blass** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:24 pm

AdminX wrote:Do you think Rybka can come back to ...

Win

or

Tie

or

Nither

The Match vs Zappa in Mexico???

unfortunately I expect 5.5:4.5 for zappa so I voted for the last option

Uri

AdminX · Post by **AdminX** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:32 pm

Uri Blass wrote:
AdminX wrote:Do you think Rybka can come back to ...

Win

or

Tie

or

Nither

The Match vs Zappa in Mexico???
unfortunately I expect 5.5:4.5 for zappa so I voted for the last option

Uri

That's interesting coming from you Uri, but I feel it is a well grounded opinion. Do you think Zappa will win at least one more of it's remaining games? Or do you just expect it to be able to Draw at best?

Uri Blass · Post by **Uri Blass** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:37 pm

I am not sure but my guess is one win for rybka and 4 draws.

Rybka has 3 whites and 2 blacks.
My guess is that she is going to win one of the white games and draw the rest of the games.

Nid Hogge · Post by **Nid Hogge** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:28 pm

Not this time.

Even the fish couldn't fix that now im afraid.

Zappa showtime..

Eelco de Groot · Post by **Eelco de Groot** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:08 pm

Rybka's strategy is to play for a win with the Black pieces only

Statistically Rybka wins more often with Black than with White. They just have to figure out that 1...e5 is not such a good opening to play for a win. What if White plays the King's Gambit? Seriously I don't really know anything about what openings suit Rybka best, but so far the Ruy Lopez has not been much of a success for Rybka. So tomorrow I'm predicting a Sicilian. Or do they fear that Anthony and Erdo's preparation against 1...c5 is even better than after 1...e5? Otherwise I do not really understand why they, team Rybka, don't play the Sicilian in Mexico?
(Not that I really mind to see just one opening repeated again and again, I love to see those theoretical opening duels! But today was a bit of a preparation disaster if you are trailing two points and have to play for a win with White!)

Dagh and Erdo battling it out in 180 moves in game 5 yesterday, arbiter David Levy watching. Picture from Susan Polgar's blog

Eelco

playjunior · Post by **playjunior** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:52 pm

Eelco de Groot wrote:Rybka's strategy is to play for a win with the Black pieces only Statistically Rybka wins more often with Black than with White. They just have to figure out that 1...e5 is not such a good opening to play for a win. What if White plays the King's Gambit? Seriously I don't really know anything about what openings suit Rybka best, but so far the Ruy Lopez has not been much of a success for Rybka. So tomorrow I'm predicting a Sicilian. Or do they fear that Anthony and Erdo's preparation against 1...c5 is even better than after 1...e5? Otherwise I do not really understand why they, team Rybka, don't play the Sicilian in Mexico?
(Not that I really mind to see just one opening repeated again and again, I love to see those theoretical opening duels! But today was a bit of a preparation disaster if you are trailing two points and have to play for a win with White!)
This was very informative and interesting!
On poll: "The fish is dead, long live the new fish..."
Although-I suspect Antonie is not going to give a new version in another year at least

Dagh and Erdo battling it out in 180 moves in game 5 yesterday, arbiter David Levy watching. Picture from Susan Polgar's blog

Eelco

AdminX · Post by **AdminX** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:02 pm

Larry Kaufman Writes:

"The loss in the 180 move game was actually predicted by the opposing operator during the period when both programs scored it as around +1.80, because he knew that Rybka would shed a pawn to avoid 50 move rule draw. This can only be considered bad luck, as if Rybka didn´t do this it would have saved this game, but would sometimes cost half a point in other games. Maybe we need a far more complicated rule to cover the 50 move rule situations in the future, but we have many higher priority things to do first."

I thought it can also be considered SMART thinking on Erdo's part myself. But hey what do I know ...