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Subject: Re: Khalifman anand or Kasparov?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:48:53 12/14/01

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On December 14, 2001 at 18:46:54, Kevin Strickland wrote:

>[Snipped the garbage and nonesense]
>
>>Anand plays (half)open positions, let's not forget that. On paper
>>ideal for computer. Only problem is that Anand is a super-GM who is simply
>>in these positions also better than computer. Add to that that he
>>never lost a slow level match ever against computer. Against rebel he
>>won with 1.5 - 0.5. Still good from rebel that it drew a game against
>>Anand.
>
>[From the Rebel Site:]

Kevin, 6 of these games were like 5 0 games. Only 2 games were
at 40 in 2 level.

>In all 8 games Rebel played very attractive chess resulting in a 5 -3 victory
>for Rebel. Spectators said that Rebel played very human alike and that they
>hardly could believe a computer was playing these games. This was perhaps the
>best compliment the Rebel-team got since this has been the goal of Rebel since
>its birth 17 years ago.
>
>The experimental ANTI GRANDMASTER software worked very well against Anand. In
>all 8 games Rebel was able to create chances and wasn't strangled as we have
>seen in the past when computers played against strong Grand Masters. No, in most
>of the games it was Rebel who took the initiative and dictated the game.
>
>Anti-GM is a new exciting development which has a great future and potential. It
>was tried against Anand as first human chess player and it worked. Anti-GM will
>be developed further in the future as it is expected to gain even more playing
>strength when facing the world human chess top.
>
>In about 2 months (september / october) we will release Rebel 10.0 and it will
>have the SAME chess engine that has played Vishy Anand so you will be able to
>find out yourself about ANTI-GM.
>
>[End of snip from Rebel site.]
>
>So how is 1.5 - 0.5 there? I count _eight_ games. Do you even know what the hell
>you are talking about most times between your rants and raves?



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