Author: Mark Young
Date: 14:22:16 10/21/98
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On October 21, 1998 at 03:25:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 19, 1998 at 16:45:15, Mark Young: >[snip] >>I think just about any player in the world besides Kasparov and a very few >>others would be happy going 1 draw 1 loss Vs Super GM Anand. Let alone a >>microcomputer chess program playing at 40/2hr. If you look at the games there is >>no question that Rebel 10 whent toe to toe playing GM Anand at 40/2hr. >Depends on what you mean. I think the impression of the match is colored by the >success at short time controls. Two games with 1/2 point can hardly be >considered going 'toe to toe' unless you assume that victory is unlikely. Toe >to toe would be 1:1, would it not? To my primitive way of thinking, 1.5:0.5 is >a loss for the side with 0.5. Of course, the average 'Joe on the street' would >probably be pretty happy with 1/2 point in such situations. I think any GM >would want to win. Even someone two hundres points lower. That's one reason >why they do so well. A drive to win. Even if they would modestly state that >they would be happy with a draw and a loss, I doubt if they would mean it. > >*I* would be happy with a single draw, or even lasting 20 moves and losing. But >that's another story. I look at it a bit differently because I played over many of the games GM Anand played Vs. the other top chess programs past and present. He rolled them all into tiny meat balls. It did not matter the time control he still crushed them all. I don't think before Rebel 10, GM Anand had ever lost a game to a computer at any time control. Let alone lose a match or almost lose a game at 40/2hr as was the case in the first game of Rebel 10 Vs. GM Anand at 40/2. I don't think I over state the case when I say Rebel 10 whent toe to toe. IMO
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