Author: odell hall
Date: 19:07:48 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 You are right my friend there is really no other excuse other than that these grandmasters are simply afraid? Why else do they go out of there way to avoid playing programs in matches and tournaments?
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