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Subject: Re: Will GM Van Der Wiel accept a Rebel plus Chess Tiger Team ?

Author: Shaun Brewer

Date: 02:28:52 01/05/01

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On January 05, 2001 at 04:53:34, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On January 05, 2001 at 03:28:15, Shaun Brewer wrote:
>
>>On January 05, 2001 at 03:00:05, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On January 04, 2001 at 22:13:58, John Dahlem wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 04, 2001 at 21:28:39, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 04, 2001 at 20:50:53, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>If Chess Tiger 13.0 plus Rebel Century 3 play against GM Van Der Wiel, allowing
>>>>>>the best move by either program, Will they score better than Rebel Century 3
>>>>>>alone? Mr Schroedder can you ask GM Van Der Wiel if he accept the challenge for
>>>>>>the remaining of the match?
>>>>>
>>>>>PS: I forgot that the Rebel 11 package doesn't have the three brains capability
>>>>>as Shredder . Therefore, a good player will have to decide move by move which is
>>>>>the best move to select from either program.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Pichard.
>>>>
>>>>But they can't do that, it wouldn't be fair because then it is not only the
>>>>engines thinking, it is also a human.  And Van Der Wiel agreed  to Century 3, so
>>>>I doubt he will accept anything else, besides, don't fully count Rebel out after
>>>>this loss, the match isn't over yet.
>>>>
>>>>John
>>>
>>>Besides that the sponsers have also something to say. Personally I would
>>>have preferred the Tiger to play but then one of the intentions of the
>>>organizers was to promote the dutch city Maastricht and therefore their
>>>preference was a dutch program to play.
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>Ed,
>>
>>"You would have preferred the Tiger to play?"
>
>Yes because it would be interesting to know about Tiger. So far Tiger
>hardly played any games against GM's and Rebel has played plenty of
>games. Maybe the Tiger will do very good, who can tell?
>
>
>>Has something changed? I thought Tiger was focusing on Computer opponents and
>>Century on Human opponents.
>
>Certainly true for Rebel as this is my main interest, Tiger is a different
>story as Christophe wants the good of both sides.
>
>
>>Please don't give up on Century it is a great program with some fantastic
>>features. EOC/CAT various styles of play etc etc.
>
>Don't worry :-)
>
>Ed
>
>>Shaun

Ed,

Thanks for the swift reply, I was worried my favorite program disappear. I am
glad I was mistaken.

Shaun



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