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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