Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:22:24 10/14/98
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On October 14, 1998 at 13:48:29, Mark Young wrote: >On October 14, 1998 at 13:26:50, blass uri wrote: > >> >>On October 14, 1998 at 07:30:53, odell hall wrote: >> >>> >>> If anyone is interested I.M. Jonathan Schroer expressed a desire to play a >>>match at 40/2hrs against any program. He told me he would be glad to take on any >>>computer. I asked him if he thought that he could defeat rebel, his answer was >>>that he doesn't know!. >> >>If rebel is a deterministic program like crafty or fritz5 it is very easy to >>beat it in a match. >> >>You can play 1.f3 to get rebel out of theory and after it to play good moves you > >Crafty or Fritz 5 can take care of this problem. I have put 100 or so lines >starting with f3 into my Fritz 5 book, to make it hard for players to find a >good winning line in Fritz 5 if they try is anti-computer tactic. I am sure >Crafty can do the same thing if it wants to play. If Rebel 10 plays with Rebel >ECO im sure it would be rather risky to do this, as 1 f3 is not a good move, if >you play the first few moves after right. So I don't think it will be much of a >problem, if precautions are taken. And the player does not know what you have >put in the book. > >>learned before the match. >>I am not interested in a match between humans and commercial programs if the >>commercial programs are deterministic. >> >>Uri Feel free to play f3 against crafty... it has many games, most of which go 1... e5 or 1... c5 prepared for f3 already... It would generally respond e5 because several have played this opening and it has learned that it is "not bad at all" for black...
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