No one will beat the cluster until they can do better than make moves like 9.Ne2? giving up maybe 30 decipawns, giving Rybka a perfect shot to follow a line that has never lost before.  If books were up to standard then Rybka could show its superiority much later in the game, which would be more flattering to the engine, I think.

nice :) I totally forgot that the tournament starts today :)

I'm playing in Ingelheim's championship today, the last 3 rounds (rapid). So far I'm at 3.5/4, playing against the strongest participant in the next round. maybe I can write later on how I played there :)

Btw., Christoph got his diploma today (he got an 1,1). Need to change his profile on our website, should I change it to "out of work"? ;)

I have to admit that Rybka Cluster looked worse in the opening, but somehow Spike was way too slow to take advantage of lack of pieces protecting black's Kingside and got smacked.  It is possible that this is just chess above a human level, but I would be interested to see what Rybka Cluster evaluation was at say in this position after black Kf7.  I found a few obscure games played where this position came up but nothing important.  Maybe white simply doesn't have anything!  However I would have liked to see how Rybka Cluster would have played against another very strong hardwared Rybka 4 if h4 was played instead of a4 (which simply doesn't seem to fit the position).  I mean a4 Qa4 0-0!  Qxc2 Nf4 ... this really looks like a dangerous position for black, sort of a poison pawn type of position where things can really go bad very quickly and catastrophically.