Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:21:47 04/18/04
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On April 17, 2004 at 22:25:26, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 17, 2004 at 21:18:22, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>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 >The prediction showed it because people tended to underestimate computers. >Predictions also showed in 1997 that kasparov is going to beat deeper blue. > >Humans for some reason support the humans who do not develop programs so they >cannot think objectively. For fun I browsed through the 650 votes, your name was in it too and you predicted Rebel to win. But I also came across many CCC expert names who predicted Rebel to lose significant, numbers like 2-6, 1½-6½ and even 1-7. It fits the general recollection of that time, at least mine. >>>>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 >>>
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