Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 14:13:16 08/09/00
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On August 09, 2000 at 12:58:56, Uri Blass wrote: >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. You got it. Besides the unexpected illness of Jeroen (he is doing better now) which put me in a most unfortunate position for the book opening choice me being not the right person for that (also solved now) this "double fee" case was a reason in itself not to go. Having asked the ICCA several times about this new invented rule I always got the standard reply (the new rules) avoiding the real topic. I just wrote the ICCA the following: [ begin ] "I will tell you how I see things. The "double fee" is just to make some more money shooting at a weak point of people how are willing to play but are not able to come themselves. This is NOT in the interest of chess, NOT in the interest of the chess programmers the only one who profit is YOU. A horrible performance I will not forget so easily. Rebel and Tiger will play in London. I will come myself too. So we are back to the old $500 for Rebel." [ end ] I found myself a good operator in Marcus Kastner who will operate the Tiger. Ed > 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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