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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:15:33 07/13/02

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On July 13, 2002 at 12:46:37, Uri Blass wrote:

>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


Better hardware won't do a thing against "mercilous".  He played 1 0, 2 0 and
3 0 games.  At those time controls, no hardware is fast enough to see that open-
ing the file will get you mated.



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