Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:58:56 08/09/00
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On August 09, 2000 at 12:15:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Ed: >Sorry, but I do not understand: Christophe live very far from London but his >program will be there, so according the rules he will be there also. No The rules do not say that the programmer must be. The rules say that the programmer can avoid coming but in this case he needs to pay more money. And then >you, living in the neighbourhood, cannot go? It seems like you want to avoid a >bad perfomance just before you are going to launch your new versions. If so, >then you does not put yourt faith in the judgement of your customers, the very >same people that you say are purchasing Rebel because of his human-like style, >the same people -me included- that answered your questions about that, long ago. >Much better would be to say: Rebel will not go because is not fitted for that >kind of torunaments. Period. >I hope I am absolutely mistaken in all this. >Fernando If you look at the results on the Rebel site you can see that RebelCentury3 got very good results against computers(results that suggest that it is the best program in comp-comp games) so the claim that Rebel is not fitted for that kind of tournament is not the reason for not coming. I also do not believe that there is a big difference between the rating against humans and the rating against computers(the difference is probably less than 100 elo). The only program that is probably clearly weaker against humans is Fritz but the main reason for it is the fact that most of the top players have Fritz so they know Fritz better. Uri
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