Author: Robert Kemper
Date: 21:11:30 07/23/98
The press conference with Anand was a bit disappointing according to Ed. Anand wasn't willing to give concrete answers to concrete questions. Some questions that were posed in the Rebel chatroom were asked like "what ELO-rating would you give Rebel" but Anand said he couldn't judge about that. The question:"do you think it's unfair that a computer plays a human at blitz" wasn't answered either: here also he thought he couldn't judge it. He was not prepared to say anything at all about the strength of computer programs in general and also not in particular (Rebel). He did not know whether the anti-GM style has been a problem for him. Ed's comments on that were that he had seen that Anand could not always play the style that he normally did and, according to Ed, that was exactly the intention of the anti-GM style. Ed thought that Rebel reasonable often had had the initiative which was one of his intentions with the anti-GM. He also wasn't willing to analyze the games that were played for he was "very tired". One other noticable fact outside of the press conference: one of the people that accompanied Anand suggested that he would never play a computer again. OK, now you're all updated although I wish I had some more answers from Anand, but he probably thought that he said already enough. Robert Kemper
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