Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 22:26:38 07/23/98
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On July 24, 1998 at 00:11:30, Robert Kemper wrote: >The press conference with Anand was a bit disappointing according to Ed. Anand >wasn't willing to give concrete answers to concrete questions. Thanks rob that you tell us about ! This is great !! >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. It is normal that Anand reacts like this. Anand a child of the ChessBase-scene. When he played against Karpov, Friedel ran arround and made video-tapes. Later Friedel was interviewt and made statements alike Anand is the best chess player in the world and nonsense stuff like this. Anand lost against Karpov for psychological reasons. His appearance here in Dortmund was disapointing. And now he lost against a program. He maybe planned to kill rebel as good as he killed fritz, this would have been a good marketing image for HIM and for ChessBase... But this did not happen. So in the end he lost 2 times: he lost a little of his reputation, and he lost this against a program that was not produced by his famous ChessBase friend Friedel. I can imagine that he does not like this situation !!! >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. Don't take it serious. Anand never says much. His answers after the match against fritz were also only polite nullmove-sentences... >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. You have all done a good job, and I am very proud of you !! Rebel played initiative, strong in the result, and intelligent ! It also will bring us much for the discussions about HOW to go further !!! Thanks !!! Congratulations and - when can we upgrade our Rebel into Rebel10 :-))) >He also wasn't willing to analyze the games that were played for he was "very >tired". :-))) Yes - of course.... >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. :-)))))))) Thats what I expected to happen ! :-)))) They don't need to play again against computer. Kasparov and Anand are to weak, and - they lost against the computers. We take Karpov next, or Seiravan, or other nice and gentle people. We don't need these bad losers ! >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 best wishes Thorsten Czub
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