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Subject: Re: Rebel victory over humans, why not Chessbase Engines?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 23:27:20 05/15/03

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On May 15, 2003 at 16:26:46, Derek Paquette wrote:

>Here is a question I'd like to share with all of you,
>I was reading over the rebel site, and I was SHOCKED to see that rebel is
>beating up GM's and super grandmasters left right and center,

While Rebel's achievements against GMs are undoubtly great, it didn't play
calibres like Kasparov or Kramnik (and Anand was beaten in blitz only).

But I don't doubt that the strength difference between latest Rebels and i.e.
Junior 7/8, F8, S7 etc. is *smaller* than between Kasparov and van Wely, or
between Kramnik and van der Wiel, against humans. But the other engines can use
SMP in such matches though... it's the same old topic (again).

On this occassion I notice that we had a bit too many draws in such matches
recently... Rebel-van Wely draw, Fritz-Kramnik draw, Hiarcs-Bareev draw,
Junior-Kasparov draw... :-) I don't complain that chess programs are strong
enough to regularly draw such matches nowadays, but four in a row surprises me
now (with some delay :-).

Regards,
M.Scheidl

http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml



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