Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 10:34:25 01/16/02
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On January 16, 2002 at 00:06:29, Jonathan Parle 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. > >If I were a betting man then, yes, I would put my money on Rebel. I think one >difficulty of playing against such a formidible opponent such as Rebel, is that >you have to turn up round after round after round against an opponent that will >always play right up to it's rated level. There is no let up at all. At least >with human vs human, you can sometimes get a little reprieve because your >opponent might be having a bad day. I really think fatigue is a factor in any >human vs computer match, and that will only play into the hands of the program. >---------------------- Fatigue is a factor in not only human vs.computer matches! It affects every human vs. human chess game! Regards,Terry >I agree that decent hardware will be very important. Lots of CPU Mhz, lots of >stable RAM, and lots of cooling ;-) > >I might add that I would not always bet on computers in human vs computer >matches - it all depends who is playing (obviously!). For instance, I think >Fritz will be pathetically trodden on and spat out by Kramnick in March.
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