Author: Don Dailey
Date: 17:21:21 07/22/98
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On July 22, 1998 at 14:41:34, Adam wrote: >I have been wondering how anti-gm works and how it improved Rebel's >play during the match. I would think that giving up advantages to >enter into positions the computer is good at wouldn't give much of >an improvement. However, with a program like Rebel, this would give, >say, open positions a higher priority. So they would be searched far >deeper. Rebel gets more out of deeply searching open positions than closed. >So it may find good moves in the open position and may be able to see >problems to help it to decide whether opening up the position is really >the best choice instead of blindly doing it. But I think the main reason >Anand lost was that he did not know how to take advantage of Rebel's >weaknesses. You are assuming it improved Rebel's play but this is not known. Anti-GM is an idea of Ed's and there is no way to know whether it actually helps or not. Rebel did a great job against Anand, but this could happen without anti-GM, Rebel is a great program without anti-GM. - Don
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