Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:55:38 02/03/99
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On February 03, 1999 at 09:29:45, Harald Faber wrote:
>On February 03, 1999 at 09:01:30, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>>>Please have a look at the Rebel Winboard at Rebel's site. Rebel still undecided
>>>>where to participate but both looks very exciting for the Rebel team.
>>>
>>>I find it strange that Ed can't manage to find a reliable operator so that he
>>>himself can participate at one event and the other operator at the other event.
>>
>>Actually, from what I understood, the problem isn't in just handling the
>>computer but in opening preparation. He only has one Jeroen Noomen (the person
>>who prepares the Rebel books) and due to slow cloning techniques and the fact
>>that both events take place at the same time must make a choice.
>
>I see but I can't believe that there is really NONE able to prepare Rebels
>opening except Jeroen.
>
Well, I've never heard of him working with anyone else, so you can imagine that
he doesn't want to gamble Rebel's reputation on an unknown at this point.
>>Someone on the
>>board suggested that opening preparation for the computer world championship >was easier,
>
>It was me. :-)
>
Woops! Sorry. :-)
>>but I would wholeheartedly disagree for the history of past computer
>>world championships absolutely does not support this opinion.
>> Albert Silver
>
>I am not so sure. Maybe you are right. Thinking about it it MAY be easier to
>prepare for the GMs because they have limited opening repertoire. But I am
>really not sure because also the GMs prepare and may choose some lines they
>didn't play before.
True. It's delicate. On the one hand, you have the GMs with presumably top notch
preparation, but who also may just chuck it all in order to try specific
Anti-Computer strategies such as Stonewall Structures and the like. One can
never tell. On the other hand, you have certain programs that have specific
lines analyzed to a win, and these are probably MUCH harder to counter as unless
you know which ones will have to do some fancy guesswork. Analyzing the
programs' style of play is also important and should strongly determine the
choices of openings, as playing Fritz 6 Mega Beta isn't exactly like playing
Hiarcs 7 Extra Plus.
He'll obviously have to make a hard choice. In my opinion, much depends on the
quality of the GM event. The computer World Championship is a significant scalp
by all means and a great marketing element IF won. Without downplaying Rebel
though, Rebel is probably far more likely to score well in a GM event as it does
extremely well against humans. The question here would be, how many games? No
one will pay too much attention to 4-5 games, but if it scored a result
equivalent to a norm (whether IM or GM it would make no difference) over 9 games
this would clearly show how good it stands, and the ploy of having a "GM at
home" would look very nice on a blurb. Again, if this was done it would have to
be on something commercially available like a K6-2/400 or a K6-3 as they should
be out by then. For a GM norm would be shrugged off by many if it was running on
some hardware that no one could reasonably get (like the Kryotechs).
Albert Silver
BTW, if you wish to repost any discussion of ours at the REBEL Board, feel free.
>Really twisting. Ed can earn honour in both events, GMs are always nice to show
>their skalp while a WCH title for Ed is some years ago, almost like his last
>time participating at such. But stressing for one event and sending some
>unprepared patzer to the other can cost a bit...
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