Author: martin fierz
Date: 20:01:30 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:] > >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? the info on the rebel site is propaganda. the matches against jusupow and anand included blitz games, and of course, many blitz games compared to the longer time limits. to just write "rebel won 5-3" is comparing apples with oranges and should not be done, except if you want to fool people into believing that rebel is better than anand. the 3.5-2.5 victory against van der Wiel was all tournament time control though. besides, vincent is both a strong chess player, and the programmer of a strong program. his posts are always very opinionated, but he *does* know what he is talking about! cheers martin
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