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Subject: Re: Poll question.

Author: Paulo Soares

Date: 23:30:06 09/08/99

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On September 09, 1999 at 00:35:01, Mark Young wrote:

>On September 08, 1999 at 20:24:58, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On September 08, 1999 at 19:38:01, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>You are right. If a GM has a heart attack and is taken to hospital the match
>>>would be a loss to him. Or a draw depending on how kind the other player is.
>>>
>>>Rebel just had a heart attack. If it is not up to playing with the big boys then
>>>the offer should not have been made.
>>>
>>>I my opinion you either win, lose or draw. And stuff any outside happenings.
>>>
>>>It was a loss to Rebel for whatever reason. Which makes me sad cause I like the
>>>program and want it to do well.
>>
>>I think what Ed is doing is sure to strengthen his program in a mighty way in
>>the long run.  Besides which, he is providing real data to the threadbare
>>question "How strong are computers compared to humans at tournament time
>>controls?"
>
>This is not what Ed is doing. He is answering the question "How strong is Rebel
>compared to GM humans at tourament time controls." We don't even know how strong
>this version of Rebel is compared to other programs. This is a huge leap of
>logic to make such a statment.
>
>>
>>In any event, those (Rebel/GM) matches are more interesting to me than the
>>recent knockout WC at Las Vegas.  I am glad that at least one program vendor had
>>the moxie to give it a go.

As Rebel is one of the top programs, and there is not great difference among
the best programs, I think we can generalize.

Another subject:
I have been seeing you place analyses of a position with Hiarcs7.32 with
details as moves, depth, time, evaluation, variant, for the whole analysis done
by H7.32. How could I make that?
Thanks,

Paulo



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