Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 07:03:12 12/14/01
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On December 13, 2001 at 15:19:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Another good example was Tony Scherzer (now deceased) I did not know. I wondered why BeBe stopped playing. I think it never outscored Cray Blitz in a tournament, but it always did quite well. >who built the chess >machine "BeBe". Didn't now squat about chess (we used to play a lot of blitz >at the ACM events and I don't ever recall him even drawing me or Bert in a >game.) But he understood computers and alpha/beta, and so forth, and built >a very dangerous chess machine. > >BTW that machine helped us win the 1983 WCCC event cleanly as we could have >tied with "NuChess" had not BeBe beaten it in the last round. And I think >that he did this again in the 1986 WCCC by beating Rebel which could have won >the event had it not lost (my memory is less clear on this one since I was >not actually present in Cologne but operated remotely.) You are right, and Rebel even had a won position against BeBe, but then it began to hunt pawns and finally lost (BeBe was outsearching Rebel quite badly in that phase of the game). José.
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