Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 15:23:35 05/03/01
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On May 03, 2001 at 18:04:04, Ed Schröder wrote: >On May 03, 2001 at 17:04:05, Larry Proffer wrote: > >> >> >>Given the inconsistencies in the Ed Schroder - Christophe Theron position vis a >>vis Rebel and Tiger position, participation, withdrawal or whatever in the BGN >>qualifier, it is not possible to rely, in my opinion, on the statement of Ed >>Schroder that he did not pursue his entry of Rebel into the qualifier in order >>to allow him to concentrate on the Tiger entry. > >On April 20 I was told a 4th participant was out of the question because >of time reasons. There was a dead line the Qualifier should end. So I gave >up on Rebel in favor of Tiger. The choice to favor Tiger was easy because >I consider Tiger clearly stronger than Rebel in comp-comp. Furthermore the >SMP Rebel has no autoplayer function (which was a demand) as it runs in a >simple text based interface (no graphics). > >Ed "Deep Fritz qualified to play Kramnik by defeating its rival Deep Junior in a contest organised by leading computer chess expert Professor Enrique Irazoqui at Cadaques in Spain. There was much controversy in the computer chess world because only two programs took part, with many of the leading programs, such as Shredder and Rebel, refusing to play". Did you refuse to play with Rebel or not? That's what the Telegraph article says. Or do they mean you refused with Tiger because you couldn't get a version to them in time? There are so many different stories. What are people supposed to believe?
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