Author: pavel
Date: 17:41:06 11/19/00
Go up one level in this thread
On November 19, 2000 at 15:19:05, Torstein Hall wrote: >On November 19, 2000 at 14:20:47, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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. > >I do not agree on that as preparing against GM Anand is not very easy. I think >he has a very wide opening repotoir and can play most any position exelent, >given a suffisently long time control. Remeber he won the 40/2 games 1 1/2 - 1/2 >last time if I remember right! > >>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 > >I think Jeroen can build a complete new book until the match, making van Welys >spesific preparation useles. He probably know this very well, so if he prepare >much at all, he is going to look for known computer weakness in Rebel! > >Torstein remember when a human players (we are talking about GM here) gets out of book, it's not a problem, but when a computer program does, then it's a major pain in the ass for the operator. :) pavs
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.