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Subject: Re: A great idea, but...

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 21:47:46 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 22:50:35, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote:

>On November 18, 2000 at 22:43:35, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>In the Kasparov-Kramnik online games recently, it happened too, that some moves
>>were played immediatly (or at least transmitted without delay in between). It's
>>not unusual I think, if the human has expected the opponents move. So I think,
>>this wouldn't give a clue, and a minimun time of some seconds before
>>transmitting the move would be enough.
>>
>>I like the idea too, but I would warn to estimate the interest in this question
>>very high. According to my experience at least, there's not much response to be
>>expected. See rec.games.chess.misc of August 14th, 2000 (long URL):
>>
>>http://x56.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=657997698&CONTEXT=974605131.1065680911&hitnum=0
>>
>>Zero replies. Meanwhile I forgot myself, who the players were. Maybe some of you
>>can tell me?
>>
>>Regards,
>>M.Scheidl
>
>First, the header wasn't helpful.
>(The header of the above message was: "computer chess?")
>Second, the question asked in the post gave the impression that the poster
>was merely trying to correct a PGN score. There was no attempt to PROMOTE it
>as an interesting experiment.


But will the program be a completely new version of say Rebel? Will we know in
advance whether it is Gambit Tiger or Tiger 13 or Rebel? If so, unless the
version playing is a completely new one that plays a lot diff from those
available to the public, I expect people will spoil the fun by checking the
moves against their computer programs



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