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Subject: Re: Rebel high rating vs Humans is due to openings preparation !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:20:47 11/19/00

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On November 19, 2000 at 14:01:17, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On November 19, 2000 at 13:25:18, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>On November 19, 2000 at 12:15:04, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On November 19, 2000 at 11:55:45, Peter Hegger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 19, 2000 at 01:39:49, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 18, 2000 at 21:02:47, Ray MacFadyen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi Ed
>>>>>>Could you please repost the dates and times for your match against V/d Wiel,I
>>>>>>must have missed your post and cannot find any imformation on your home
>>>>>>page,also what times will you be using for the match.
>>>>>>Many thanks in advance
>>>>>>Ray MacFadyen
>>>>>
>>>>>Here is the information. When we have more data, pictures it will
>>>>>have a column on the Rebel Home Page. If my memory serves me well
>>>>>GM John v/d Wiel never lost a game against a computer during the
>>>>>AEGON events in the 90ties. If I am wrong I would like to hear!
>>>>>
>>>>>Ed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Match announcement Man versus Machine:
>>>>>
>>>>>· GM John van der Wiel versus REBEL.
>>>>>· January 2-4, 2001 Round 1-3.
>>>>>· January 9-11, 2001 Round 4-6.
>>>>>· Time control: 40/120 + 60/all.
>>>>>· Location: Maastricht, the Netherlands.
>>>>>· Organization: Chess Events Maastricht Foundation.
>>>>>· Organization director: Maarten van Gils.
>>>>>· Tournament director: Geurt Gijssen.
>>>>>· Game comments: Jan van Reek.
>>>>>· Live Internet support: Daan Brorens.
>>>>
>>>>Do you, at this time, have any idea what type of hardware Rebel will be running
>>>>on?
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Peter
>>>
>>>The organization is looking for a hardware sponsor. I have no idea
>>>about the current status concerning the hardware. I hope they will
>>>get me a nice Thunderbird >= 1000 Mhz. But against humans does it
>>>really matter so much?
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>If you look at the results reached by the Deep Junior and Fritz, I think it may
>>matter a lot! If they have not changed a lot outside the SMP stuff in the
>>programs, they won games due to their new better hardware!
>>
>>But I think your choise of openings will matter even more. Has your opening
>>expert Jeroen already started to prepare against van Wiel?
>>
>>Torstein
>
> This is the main reason why Rebel has such a good rating against GMs, if
>you noticed that most of the matches against GMs Jeroen knew way in advance who
>Rebel opponents was going to be and what choices of openings he prefer to play.
>In the case of Deep Junior and Deep Fritz playing against different opponents
>is a more accurate way of knowing the real strength of the programs, since it is
>impossible to prepare diferent opening lines against so many GMs and be as
>sucessful as preparing months in advance as it has been in all the Rebel GM
>Challenges.
>
>Pichard.

The humans can also do better opening preperation against the machine when they
know monthes before the games that they are going to play against Rebel.

Uri



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