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GM Sorín vs REBEL
The CHESS 2010 POLL clearly shows that people consider Man versus
Machine games to be more important than Computer versus Computer.
Due to the absence of strong Man versus Machine competitions Rebel company wants to introduce a new initiative called The Monthly GM Challenge.
The goal is that REBEL plays one LIVE tournament game against a grandmaster once a month. Live coverage including Rebel analysis via the Rebel Home Page.
Prizes:
- $500 if the grandmaster wins against REBEL.
- $250 for a draw.
- No prize money in case of a loss against REBEL.
The second game is scheduled on Saturday July 3, 1999 against GM Ariel Sorín.
Biographical information Ariel Sorín
Date of birth 26-4-1967
Main sportive achievments:
1981 and 1982 Argentina sub-16 Champion 1985 Panamerican Junior Subchampion 1987 Argentina Junior Champion 1987 sub-26 Subchampion Third place at the 1987 Argentina Absolute Championship Clarin prize to the 1987 revelation player Fourth prize at the 1988 La Habana Panamerican Absolute Championship Winner of the "Magistral III Mar del Plata" getting the M.I. title: 1989 Winner of the "Magistral III Torre Blanca" 1989 First place at Benasque International Open (Spain) 1989 First place at Badalona International Open (Spain) 1989 First place at Chiasso International open (Switzerland) 1991 First place at Ciudad de Vendrell International Open (Spain) 1992 City of Buenos Aires 1993 Champion Member of the sub-26 Argentinian Team 1993 World Champion Winner of the "Magistral Ciudad de San Martín" 1994 Winner of the "Magistral Circulo de Ajedrez Torre Blanca" and G.M.I. norm: 1994 1994 Moscow Olympics Argentinian Team Captain and member as well. Winner of the "Groenningen Masters Tournament" (Holland) 1994 1995 Argentina Sub-Champion and final G.M.I. norm (Roque Saenz Peña) "Olimpia de Plata" prize to the best player of 1995 1996 Erevan (Armenia) Olympics Argentinian Team member. Winner of the Italian Club Open 1997 Winner of the National Championship semi-finals 1998 6th-10th place at Miguel Najdorf In Memorian Open Teaching activity
During 1994 and 1995 he managed the Children Chess School "Masters of the 2.000". Gives chess lessons at the "Circulo de Ajedrez Torre Blanca" and the "Sociedad Hebreica Argentina". Also, he has been the trainer of many argentinian players at national, panamerican and international promotional categories championships.
A memorable game
This game against the well known Colombian Grand Master, was played at the "Magistral Shanin" at the brasilian city of Americana, 1997
Ariel Sorin Alonso Zapata.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Bg5
{ White uses the well known Averbach variation against the King Indian Defence played by Zapata. His purpose is to avoid 6..e5, which would be punished with 7.dxe5 dxe5 8.Qxd8 Rxd8 9.Nd5! winning material. }
6..c6 7.f4 { begins an agressive game }
7..Qa5 8.Qd2 e5 9.fxe5 dxe5 10.d5 { Closes de Bg7's diagonal and gets space advantage }
10..h6? { Risky castling weakening, looking for counterplay } 11.Bxh6 Bxh6 12.Qxh6 Nxe4 13.Rc1 Nbd7 14.Nf3 Ndf6 15.Nd2! { 15.0-0 was not possible due to 15..Qc5+. Textula tries to change the better black piece and project a very depth combination }
15..cxd5 16.0-0! { Conceptual sacrifice, betting on pieces development }
16..Qb6+ 17.c5!! { A new pawn sacrifice, in order to misplace black pieces. If black accepts the bet with 17..Qxc5+ then 18.Kh1 Qd6 19.Ncxe4 Nxe4 20.Nxe4 dxe4 21.Nc4 Be6 22.Rf6 Qe7 23.Qg5 +- }
17..Nxc5 18.Rxf6! { Removes violently the latest king defender and brings more pieces to the attack } 18..Qxf6 19.Nxd5 Qd6 20.Bc4 b5 { Loser, but the position was hopeless, now we will assist to a tematic and nice outcome }
21.Ne7+! Qxe7 22.Qxg6+ Kh8 23.Qh6+ Kg8 24.Rc3! { The reserved piece kill of the game }
24..Bg4 25.Qg6+ 1-0 { Black resigns. If 25..Kh8 26.Qxg4 threatening the mortal 27.Rh3+ }
Visit GM Ariel Sorín pages (in Spanish).
Hardware & Software REBEL
Program: REBEL 10.5 using new king safety software to play against strong humans. Opening book: as used in the World Championship in Paderborn. EOC database setting: Use is STRONG. PC: Kryotech AMD 600 Mhz, 128 Mb (as used in the World Championship in Paderborn). Other settings will be revealed during the game.
Conditions
The game is scheduled on Saturday July 3 10:00 New York / 16:00 Amsterdam time.
The time control is 40 moves in 2 hours and then one hour for the rest of the game so a game can not take longer than 6 hours.
Move transmission via the Internet Chess Club
It should be guaranteed that both players can not lose on time due to problems (time loss) with the move transmission over the net. These games are meant to give some light on the current state of art of the on-going Man versus Machine event and should reflect a normal face-to-face event. For that purpose an arbiter is appointed and his decisions will be final.
The arbiter is Enrique Irazoqui former chief editor of the "Computer Chess Reports" magazine.
To ensure fair play the arbiter is send the Rebel version before the game is started and the arbiter will check all moves played by Rebel. Another (second) arbiter is installed at the place of the grandmaster, the normal rules apply.
LIVE support
LIVE support of the game HERE. You DO NOT have to press the REFRESH button of your browser to get an update as the page is automatically refreshed after 3 minutes.
Programmer Ed Schröder will be available on REBEL-BOARD for short comments during the game.
Rebel company and ICC agreed that the match can be followed live on the Internet Chess Club also if you are not a paying member. Go to the above URL how to get access.