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Subject: Re: Rebel Company introduces "The Monthly GM Challenge" with money prizes

Author: John Hartmann

Date: 13:21:28 06/20/01

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Isn't this "old news?"  There's not been a match sponsored by
Rebel in some time.

john hartmann

On June 20, 2001 at 16:14:57, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>Gentlemen,
>At the following link is described the above interesting initiative by Rebel
>Company :
>
>http://www.rebel.nl/gm.htm
>
>A brief excerpt :
>
>The CHESS 2010 POLL clearly shows that people consider Man versus Machine games
>to be more important than Computer versus Computer.
>
>Due to the absence of strong Man versus Machine competitions Rebel company wants
>to introduce a new initiative called The Monthly GM Challenge.
>
>The goal is that REBEL plays one LIVE tournament game against a grandmaster once
>a month. Live coverage including Rebel analysis via the Rebel Home Page.
>
>Prizes:
>$500 if the grandmaster wins against REBEL.
>$250 for a draw.
>No prize money in case of a loss against REBEL.
>We challenge every chess player with an official FIDE grandmaster title to take
>the bite and play our program. You can contact us by email at Mail to REBEL.
>
>Acceptance of entries is done in the order we receive them.
>
>About time control
>
>Playing BLITZ games (5/all) against grandmasters (even against world-top
>players) is a non-issue these days. A chess program like REBEL has proven that,
>beating GM Arthur Yusupov and GM Vishy Anand who is known as the world best
>blitz player.
>
>Regards,
>Otello.



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