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Subject: Re: Poll question.

Author: Mark Young

Date: 08:49:04 09/11/99

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On September 11, 1999 at 02:05:20, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On September 10, 1999 at 18:36:12, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 1999 at 11:50:50, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On September 10, 1999 at 07:50:36, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 10, 1999 at 06:04:42, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>Perhaps Ed should clarify this issue.
>>>>>
>>>>>My only goal is to find out how Rebel will do against GM's at tournament
>>>>>time control. Because of the attention the event gets I can afford to put
>>>>>some money and time in it.
>>>>>
>>>>>As for the question, "count this game or not" I on my abacus will not
>>>>>count this game because the game was not representative to the above
>>>>>mentioned goal.
>>>>>
>>>>>Officially this game counts of course. A PC can break any time. A pity but
>>>>>it is simply all in the game. A human can go to the bathroom and lose on
>>>>>time, no win on my personal abacus then but the win officially will count.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyway in 8 days Rebel can try again against Lithuania (1 x GM and 3 x IM).
>>>>>
>>>>>Ed Schroder
>>>>
>>>>Hi Ed
>>>>
>>>>Do you think that all the problems are fixed, are you changing any program or
>>>>hardware for this upcoming match. And if so do you think that it is worse or
>>>>better for your chances at winning.
>>>
>>>I will change hardware. I am after the Athlon-650 at the moment. I don't
>>>think the Athlon-650 will run faster than the K6-III-600 I am having now.
>>
>>Perhaps Bruce is right and you are again putting Rebel riding a wild ponny. I
>>would love to see how Rebel does using a more conventional hardware as that we
>>generally have. I mean, a 233, 266 or so Mhz stuff.
>>fernando
>
>Of course Bruce is right and you have a point too. But I am sure the
>majority wants to see the best software + the best (fastest) hardware.
>And I definitely belong to that majority :-)
>
>A chess programmer's main wish and goal is to see his baby to perform as
>strong as possible. That is his driving force. For me that is 18 years
>now and I am still not cured. Will it ever stop? :-)
>
>Ed

I would run it on the Fastest PIII I could get my hands on. The performance will
not drop that much in terms of Elo over the K Chips. And you no longer have to
worry about hardware crashes and strange thing happening in the game due to
hardware. This seems to be the smart move to make, but I know some people like
to play with fire even after being burned.;)

>
>
>
>>>I also think book preparation must be done better as the Benko-gambit line
>>>was not good for Rebel, too much strategic involved. I am not so optimistic
>>>anymore than I was after the 2 nice draws.
>>>
>>>Ed



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