Author: James Robertson
Date: 20:35:45 04/24/99
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On April 24, 1999 at 23:19:35, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >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. I guess my guess was completely wrong.... Maybe we will be enjoying a lot of GM-Rebel games. :) James
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