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Subject: Re: Rebel Performance Rating

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:50:44 09/19/99

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On September 19, 1999 at 17:21:40, Mark Young wrote:

>On September 19, 1999 at 17:07:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 19, 1999 at 15:57:46, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>On September 19, 1999 at 15:44:40, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>>
>>>>The GM did never have anything in the game. On what, except gut feeling do you
>>>>have to back that up. It was a typical slav opening cop-out from the GM.
>>>>
>>>>Regards Dan Andersson
>>>
>>>I took from the content of Bobs post that this comment was just a mind hiccup. I
>>>am sure he meant that the computer not the GM was going to win.
>>
>>
>>No.  Although I could certainly have been wrong, I believe that at some point
>>in this game, that a couple of programs that were analyzing (crafty included)
>>had the GM at over +1 ahead...
>>
>>But a lot was going on with 4 games, plus the usual ICC questions I get, plus
>>the phone, plus watching a football game on TV..  So it is definitely possible
>>that I mixed the games up...
>
>
>Just using my own judgment I never thought the GM had any kind of advantage. I
>look at the other computer evals and the program I was using. I never seen at
>any time where the GM was winning. I was looking forward to Rebel playing Rg6
>and getting its first GM win, when it played the shocking c5 and traded down to
>a forced drawn endgames. Very sad for Rebel, as it seemed to have a winning edge
>until then.

I was monitoring the game with Hiarcs 7.32 and it had the GM with a slight
advantage early(+.32)around move 12).  When c5 was played Hiarcs was expecting
Rg6 with a -1.21 score meaning black (Rebel) had a nice advantage.
Jim Walker



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