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Subject: Re: How high would the Rating of Belle realy be

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 07:49:36 09/23/01

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On September 23, 2001 at 10:28:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 23, 2001 at 10:09:45, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On September 23, 2001 at 09:41:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On September 23, 2001 at 05:38:29, Tony Werten wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 22, 2001 at 13:06:54, Marc van Hal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Acording to the programmer it would have a rating of 2345
>>>>>After which Donner told them they realy did do everything to mislead the people
>>>>>
>>>>>To my point of vieuw he was right
>>>>>
>>>>>Marc van Hal
>>>>
>>>>It's rating was considerably lower than that of Donner's niece when she was 4.
>>>>
>>>>Tony
>>>
>>>
>>>Who is that?  A female IM/GM at that age???
>>
>>Donner was not very impressed by Belle. He played a match against it and claimed
>>afterwards:" It was terrible, my 4 year old niece plays better chess"
>>
>>Donner was famous in Holland for his rudeness (well, also for his chess of
>>course). If you had never been insulted by Donner, you didn't count.
>>
>>His nickname was "Iron Hein". Hein except for Donners first name, also being the
>>name for Death in dutch ( Skinny Hein).
>>
>>Tony
>
>
>Did he win?  Or did he get beat by a machine that could beat his 4-year old
>niece?  :)

Donner won very easy after Belle missed the only logical continuating at move
19, so I'm quite sure he was speaking about Belle with "it was terrible".


Tony



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