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Subject: Re: Van Wely will probally lose the Match to Century 4 how many agree?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 10:30:39 01/16/02

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On January 16, 2002 at 05:56:06, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 15, 2002 at 21:14:03, James Doby  wrote:
>
>>Rebel is an Outstanding Program that makes very little "Computer like Moves"
>>it's play is indistiquishable from human play. I can't see van wely
>>outcalculating the thing or outplaying it in the endgame the best he can hope
>>for is a drawn match perhaps a repeat of the Fritz Huebner match, ofcourse rebel
>>is much stronger then fritz against humans as the grandmaster challenges
>>demonstrated, look at fritz poor result in the israeli league.
>
>I am not sure if Fritz is weaker against humans.
>I know that Fritz had a disadvantage because more players prepared against it.
>
>A lot of chess players have Fritz when less players have other programs.
>
>I guess that the result of the match is going to be van wely-Rebel 2.5-1.5
>
>
>Uri
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So what you are saying, this score would show aproximately a 62.5% win -
expectancy in favor of Van Wely which also means there is only aproximately a 90
point(USCF) difference in their ratings! Very interesting!

Regards,Terry



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