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Subject: Re: I don't buy Nemeth's claims

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:46:37 07/13/02

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On July 13, 2002 at 10:47:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 12, 2002 at 21:34:43, Telmo Escobar wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 2002 at 14:29:17, Louis Fagliano wrote:
>>
>>>He seems to have replaced John van der Wiel as the leading computer killer (at
>>>least on this board).  Rebel managed to overcome van der Wiel's anti-computer
>>>chess style and beat him in a challenge match.  Since Ed Schroeder has retired
>>>from playing challenge matches against humans, is there anyone with a copy of
>>>Rebel Century 4.0 and a fast computer (sorry, mine's only 500 MHz) and would
>>>want to challenge Mr. Nemeth to a match?
>>>
>>
>> Try to win using his strategies and you'll see.
>>
>> I'd like to meet Nemeth in the Fritz 7 server, to have him playing any of the
>>CB engines I have in my computer.
>
>
>You might be surprised.  There was a player named "mercilous" on ICC that
>wrecked holy hell on _all_ programs a couple of years ago.

You forget one important thing and that the programs of today have better
hardware and it make things harder for humans.

Of course you can win after enough tries but this strategy is not going to work
in most of the cases and GM's are not going to try it when they know that they
may have maybe probability of 10% to win the machine and 90% to get problems.

Uri



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