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Subject: Re: More Prizes for Morovic-Ferret

Author: blass uri

Date: 02:57:58 08/11/98

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On August 11, 1998 at 05:07:42, Leon Stancliff wrote:

>On August 10, 1998 at 12:54:51, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On August 10, 1998 at 12:45:13, Leon Stancliff wrote:
>>
>>>How sad!
>>>
>>>The Aegon tournament bit the dust. The Harvard Cup followed suit. Now Morovic
>>>wishes to delay indefinitely and reduce the size of the Ferret match to no more
>>>than four games.
>>>
>>>My opinion is that Morovic got a better look at Ferret than he had gotten
>>>previously. By shortening the match he could then claim the number of games was
>>>too small to be meaningful! Anand does have to be given credit for going through
>>>with his match against Rebel. The GMs seem to be trembling in their boots. Bruce
>>>is absolutely right in his decision to call off the whole matter if Morovic does
>>>not show up this evening. Ferret would have scored at least 2 out of 6. It might
>>>have gone 3-3.
>>>
>>>I am convinced the top six computer programs are now playing at over 2500 when
>>>operated at 400 Mhz, and at a time limit of 40 moves in 120 minutes. We need
>>>another Harvard Cup matching any six grandmasters in the U.S.A. against the
>>>following programs at time limits of 40 in 1 hour.
>>>	Rebel 10
>>>	Nimzo 98
>>>	Hiarcs 6
>>>	Fritz 5
>>>	Genius 5
>>>	MChess Pro 7.1
>>>A couple of good alternates would be Chessmaster 5500 and Shredder 2.0.
>>
>>Junior5 won Rebel10  1.5:0.5
>>Junior5 had a better hardware but the difference was not significant.
>>Junior5 is a better program than the world microcomputer champion Junior4.5
>>Junior4.5 won Mchesspro and fritz5 in this tournament
>>I think Junior5 should be in the list of the top six computer programs.
>
>You may well be right Uri. Junior 5 has some good credentials. Which tournament
>are you talking about when you say Junior 5 defeated Rebel 10?


This was before the tournament Rebel10-Anand
Rebel10 on pentium266Mh played 2 games against Junior on pentium333Mh
The first game(2 hours per game when Rebel was white was draw
and the second game 1 hour per game Junior won)
I think it was in 1.7 and I think the games are in Rebel's homepage

Uri

> Or was this in a
>tournament? I did not mean to leave out other programs that might play at over
>2500. I simply wanted to make the point that the top programs can play with the
>top GMs in the U.S. at action chess and running at 400 Mhz.
>>
>>Uri
>>>
>>>By the way. These six programs would have a plus score against any six GMs in
>>>the U.S. at action chess today.
>>>
>>>Leon



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