Author: Dragos Gabudeanu
Date: 16:38:10 07/23/98
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On July 23, 1998 at 18:42:42, Joe McCarron wrote: >Just today I told someone about this Anand rebel match. The fact that rebel is >a program that most people can buy and it was on a computer that was (or at >least soon will be)available to your average consumer is what made me so >interested in the match. This is exactly what my friend think the match was >insignificant. After all, this is a program thats freely available you should >know what the results will be. Of course he's right. Theres no excuse. The >reason we don't know is humans are afraid of computers. >The way I view it Ed and other programers (with the glaring exception of IBM) >have made there programs freely available. Programers have told the world that >they will take on all comers any time any day. So the blame is on the humans. >So just like I resolve doubts in favor of Paul Morphy that he would have beat >Staunton if they played I resolve doubts in favor of computers that they are >GM's. *Any* time a *any* GM would want to set us straight they could just play >rebel in a 20 game match at whatever time controls they want. I just find it >hard to believe this has never been done. Why the mystery and beating around >the bush??? >-Joe Actually, the Rebel version that played Anand was not freely available. This was the soon-to-be-released Rebel 10. Rebel Decade 2.0 is free, but significantly weaker. Dragos
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