Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 02:24:54 07/27/98
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On July 26, 1998 at 22:45:33, Mark Young wrote: >> >You may be right. I am just torn on this because of what I think I know and what >I saw. I expected the computer to get rolled like Fritz 5 did. Instead I saw the >computer match blow for blow with one of the strongest players in the history of >the game. And this was not at game 30, but at 40 moves in 2 hours. Maybe GM >Anand was just a bit off, Or the computer was lucky and got into positions it >could understand well. I am not saying for sure Rebel 10 is of Grandmaster >strength, but I am thinking hard about it. But I'm sure what I saw was better >then 2400. the thing that most stands out to me, when comparing anand-fritz and anand- rebel is the play by Anand. Against fritz, he did *not* let the games get wild and open. Against Rebel, he went so far as to castle opposite. I thought he would lose the first long game as a result, because he didn't have to go into that type of position. So there was a difference in the two matches, but I believe that the difference was more on the part of Anand, rather than the two different computer programs. Rebel can't make Anand castle opposite. Fritz couldn't prevent it. Wish we knew more about why he adopted a more open and "normal" style of play against Rebel, while simply strangling Fritz...
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