Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 18:18:22 04/17/04
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On April 17, 2004 at 14:19:16, Mark Young wrote: >>>It seems Mr. Ham fell for Ed's PR machine.:) >>What..............................? >> >>Hey, show a bit more respect for an oldtimer, will you? :) >> >>Hey (2), Rebel-Yusupov (1997), hardware P2-266 Mhz (ha ha ha) >> >>Hey (3), Rebel-Anand (1998), hardware AMD-450 Mhz (ha ha ha) >> >>Hey (4), Anand in 1998 was the world's strongest blitz-player. >> >>Hey (5), On all 4 matches it was agreed that the winner of the match was the one >>with the most points, regardless the time control. >I know what was agreed in the match conditions. That is not what we are talking >about. >The point being you can not compare apples and oranges. Standard time controls >with blitz. And no Anand was not the strongest Blitz-player in the world. Only >the strongest human blitz player. Computers were stronger then and now then at >blitz chess. At that time? No way. I was much surprised Anand lost the blitz part, and so was Anand, also the prediction poll showed Rebel was the underdog. http://www.rebel.nl/predstat.htm >>Hey (6), it made little sense those days to play on 40/2h against a GM, the >>hardware was much to slow. > >Right...So for Mr. Ham to trumpet Rebel's match record with GM Yusupov and GM >Anand as the best computer record to date was clearly wrong. As you did not even >play standard time control games. That was the first experiment, in those days all comps lost from GM's at 40/2h, some programs incidently winning some games at blitz on ICC. No surprise as the fastest hardware was a poor P2-266 in those days. >>Hey (7), Rebel's overall performance at the AEGON tournaments of the 80's and >>90's was best of all. > >Rebel was good... As you know I wrote about Rebel's success here many times. You >even posted my comments on your web site. > > >> >>Hey (8), Rebel was the best computer in the Premiere Israel League (5½/8) >>(1999-2000) >> >>Hey (9), Rebel was best computer in DEBRECEN-2000 (8½/11), 1½ points more than >>the second rated chess program. >>Now Mark, come up with the list of your favorite program :) >My Favorite programs are ChessGenius for PPC, Chess Tiger 14, and Shredder 8. >If you mean what chess program do I think plays the best chess. No, I did not mean that, I asked for comparable lists. Ed
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