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Subject: Re: Van Wely was crushed at Corus 2002, I think Rebel will win.

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 15:24:15 02/01/02

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On February 01, 2002 at 17:41:07, Mark Young wrote:

>On February 01, 2002 at 07:45:41, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>A single processor machine simply hasn't got the power to overcome this
>>opponent.
>>
>>However, I think he'll slip up a couple of times - hence the draws.
>
>GM van Wely has just produced one of the worst resutls I have seen from such a
>strong grandmaster. Rebel may have caught GM van Wely at the right time. I think
>Rebel will win.

Today I was informed GM Loek van Wely dropped from place 10 to somewhere place
40 in the Fide rating list. Shocking!

Ed



>It is clear nonsense to think a strong single CPU chess program on a fast
>machine can not produce results above a 2700 elo player. Remember that Chess
>Tiger 14 on a *slow* PIII 866 produced an outstanding results in Magistral
>República Argentina  2001. Chess Tiger 14 was playing some strong Grandmasters
>and IM's and won the tounament without a loss, resulting in a TPR of 2788 for
>Chess Tiger 14.
>
>I don't think Rebel is as strong as Chess Tiger even playing humans, but I bet
>is will be running on hardware that will be 2x faster then what Tiger was
>running in Argentina. At this time I must favor the Computer over the human.
>
>Corus 2002
>
> Name                    ELO  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14    Score TPR
>1. Bareev  rus           2707 X ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1         9     2828
>2. Grischuk  rus         2671 ½ X 0 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1         8,5   2800
>3. Adams  eng            2742 ½ 1 X ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½         8     2771
>4. Morozevich rus        2742 ½ 0 ½ X ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1         8     2771
>5. Khalifman  rus        2688 1 0 ½ ½ X ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1         7,5   2745
>6. Leko  hun             2713 0 1 ½ ½ ½ X ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1         7     2716
>7. Dreev  rus            2683 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ X ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½         6     2660
>8. Gelfand  isr          2708 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ X 1 0 0 1 ½ ½         6     2658
>9. Lautier  fra          2687 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 X ½ 1 ½ 1 ½         6     2660
>10. Piket  ned           2659 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ X ½ 1 ½ ½         6     2662
>11. Timman  ned          2605 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ X ½ ½ 1         6     2666
>12. Gurevich  bel        2641 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ X 1 ½         5,5   2635
>13. Kasimdzhanov  uzb    2695 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 X 1         4,5   2578
>14. van Wely  ned        2697 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 X         3     2477
>
>IV Magistral República Argentina  2001
>                                   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
>1   COMP Chess Tiger        2632  +156  * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1   9.5/11
>2   Slipak,Sergio      IM   2448  +159  ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½   7.5/11
>3   Valerga,Diego      IM   2468  +138  ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1   7.5/11
>4   Ricardi,Pablo      GM   2554   -27  0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1   6.5/11
>5   Hoffman,Alejandro  GM   2453   +82  0 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1   6.5/11
>6   Limp,Eduardo       IM   2465   -30  ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 * 0 ½ 1 0 1 1   5.0/11
>7   Scarella,Enrique   FM   2361   +82  0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 0 1 1   5.0/11
>8   Panno,Oscar        GM   2471   -37  0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½   5.0/11
>9   Andres,Miguel      IM   2382    -8  0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½   4.0/11
>10  Rodriguez,Andrés   GM   2500  -173  0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ * 0 ½   3.5/11
>11  Dorin,Mauricio     IM   2410  -115  0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 * 0   3.0/11
>12  Matsuura,Everaldo  IM   2467  -177  0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 *   3.0/11



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