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Subject: GM reaction to the Rebel challenge.

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 20:19:35 04/24/99


I brought this Rebel challenge up to my friend, GM M.R. (Has played in many
human versus computer events, so it is easy to figure out who it is).

I quote him as best I remember; "I'll email them about accepting this challenge,
but there must be 30 other GM's who are already vieing to play the thing"  I
told him that I thought he had a good chance of being one of the early
challenger's, as I figured that a lot of the other GM's around would be busy at
weekend tournament's or were not all that Internet suavy.  Of course I figured
this would be a good experiment to see how quick these guys go after this
challenge.

I reviewed the conditions of the challenge to him as I was not sure he would be
interested.  M.R. is an atorney and doesn't necessarily need the money, but for
most of his chess services he gets paid up front, so this would be something of
a gamble, and I was not sure he would be interested in a 1 game match over the
Internet, where if he loses, he gets nothing.  M.R. "I doubt that I'll get one
of the early slots, but if I do wind up playing, and I lose to the thing, it
will give me some useful publicity".

So my conclusion (true based on just 1 GM), is that this will attract a lot of
GM competition to play the program, and that they are not too concerned or
worried about losing the one game.  Of course they would rather win or draw for
the money, but since the Rebel versus Anand match, accept that anything can
happen against this program.  I'm sure that most G.M.'s will be glad for another
injection of money from a computer software company, even though it is not that
much (from their perspective), or that often.



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