Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 02:15:08 08/15/99
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On August 15, 1999 at 04:47:50, Ed Schröder wrote: >On August 15, 1999 at 03:25:48, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >>After seeing two draws and a loss for Rebel, my second favorite program after >>CM6K is sadly becoming sorry to look at. I do not think that this is a good >>sales pitch for Rebel. Its fine getting the publicity in playing these games, >>but if you cannot get a win then things start to get old real fast. >> >>The first two games drew some comment in CCC. But I have seen very little with >>this third game. I think that if after 5 games Rebel has not won and it is still >>being played on the same hardware, either change the plan or dump it. Rebel can >>not become a program that tries to compete against strong humans and does not >>win. >> >>I know more games needed to be played with humans against computers and this is >>great. But my current view of Rebel and the upcoming Rebel windows realease is >>that the partnership with chesspartner interface is a step down and I think the >>current non winning Rebel on powerful hardware is not doing it any service. >> >>Lets hope rebel can turn this down period around and get back on track. I am >>many others like winners. Appearence is everything. And Rebel is not appearing >>well at the moment. Lets hope this changes in Rebels favour soon. > >GM Sorin said Rebel played very well. Yesterday GM Rohde told me he hadn't >seen Rebel make one single bad move. Personally I am very satisfied with >these 2 draws in a row. I have seen these GM's at Aegon crushing computers >and I was always impressed in the way they did that, slowly killing the >silicon on positional grounds. > >GM's are by far superior when the topic is understanding the game of chess >and that will remain for a very long time and maybe even after 100 years. > >Two years ago the discussion was, do computers play at IM level. We seem >to have passed this discussion as we now wonder about the GM strength. > >I have to much respect for GM's and their skills of chess to say Rebel >plays on GM level yet. Let's wait for next games. > >Ed Schroder Hi Ed You are right, but I am just a bit sad that Rebel has not won yet. Rebel 10 I like, along with CM6K. But would you say that Rebel would outplay a GM or would it be that a GM would stuff up and Rebel would take advantage of it. On the current hardware which do you think your program would be. Outplay, or win from a GM stuff up.
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