Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:01:03 02/06/01
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On February 05, 2001 at 20:41:59, Garry Evans wrote: > > I was surprised when recieving my febuary issue of Chess Life that there was >no mention of the Rebel Van Der Weil match. Wasn't this match a Milstone in >Computer Chess and Chess in General!! This was not a blitz match, which >computers have already been shown to be superior, but a Standard Tournament time >control match. When i see matches of this magnitude ignored by the chess media, >first thing comes to my mind is that it is human bias against chess computers >that we have seen time and time again. Or did Chess life mention the match but I >just overlooked it? If so my apologies to chess life. I am not surprised. With all respect to John he is not a wellknown name. And if you don't know about his specialty (killing computers) the match was not special at all. It was special here but not to the wide public. Ed
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