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Subject: Re: Deep Blue--Part III

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 09:47:28 05/14/98

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On May 13, 1998 at 06:12:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>How can a program like Fritz5 which loses normally to all those programs
>can get on top?

I never saw any games where Fritz 5 would lose "normally" to anything.
Quite the contrary in autoplayed games, manual games like the ones
played by Mark Young at ICC... All posted.

>How can Rebel9 get stronger than 8, considering that the only
>4 things changed are interface,few extensions to solve some tricks,
>BOOKLEARNING, and with capital letters BOOK.

Come on, you said the same about Rebel 8, remember? Look, this is a
quotation from December 4th 1996:
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In <01bbe111$a3c4d4e0$f3ece0c2@10.0.1.1> "Enrique Irazoqui"
<enir@lix.intercom.es> writes:
>> Vincent Diepeveen <vdiepeve@cs.ruu.nl> wrote >
>> What is your opinion about the Rebel super killerbook.
>> I played a rapid-game Rebel-Genius3. Rebel in book: far over 20 moves.
>> Genius in book: around 10 moves.>
>> After his book Genius3 played: ... Qd8-b6 followed by Qb6xb2??>>Dear Vincent,
>>Could you post this game? I am looking for killer lines in programs and so
>far I did not find this one.
I aborted the game, but i'll look up the line for you this evening.
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500 evenings passed... and still no proof of Rebel 8 or 9 owing that
much to BOOK in capital letters. So Rebel must be getting stronger
because of something else, don't you think?

Enrique




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