Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 01:45:53 09/09/99
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On September 09, 1999 at 00:55:59, Mark Young wrote: >On September 08, 1999 at 18:08:56, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On September 08, 1999 at 17:36:38, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >> >>>Should the game Rebel-Hoffman be taken in account to calculate the performance >>>rating of Rebel in the GM challenge? >>> >>>-Yes 1 >>>-No >>>-Abstain >> >>Why such an absurd position as to claim it should count despite machine crashes? >> >>Because it does not matter *why* the outcome was as it was. >> >>If a GM defaults because he does not feel well enough to continue, does that >>invalidate the loss? No. And neither should this one. >> >>No cries of "mess-up... do-over" should be allowed. > > >If you feel this way then by all means count this game. I am more interested in >Rebels true strength playing GM's. Rebel is not a human, it is a computer >program. This loss was due to a program error or hardware error. We know this >because the person checking over the moves of Rebel could not reproduce some of >the moves. This tells me it was not the fault of the program, and not some >excuse by Ed. We have to few games in this match to pollute it with such a >obvious faulty game. Unless new info comes to light saying this is how Rebel >would have played in a correct working condition. for the offical record it must count. I have seen many GM's stuff up a game which they should not have. For example WCCC99 Fritz Vs GM, he totally stuufed up the opening and thus humiliated himself. I say they should be treated like any human player. Win loss or draw, nothing else. Everybody was willing to jump all over kasparov when he lost to deep blue, stuff his condition or mental state. Well it is the same stuff the Rbel software or hardware. It lost due to an error. Just like a human player it will have to prepare better next time or expect to stuff up again.
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