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Subject: Re: Will the CM6K result, will this force chess programs down even more

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 11:59:12 04/05/99

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On April 01, 1999 at 05:42:17, Harald Faber wrote:

>On March 31, 1999 at 13:29:29, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>>>Ed told us here that he played Rebel10 against MCP8 and found strange results of
>>>something like 19:2 for Rebel(I am not sure if I remember the exact result).
>>>
>>>He found that the problem was the autoplayer and MCP8 did mistakes that it does
>>>not do without the autoplayer.
>>I have played 3-4000 games with Rebel6-Rebel9 and never seen anything
>>suspicious. I also have about 1000 games with different Mchess and everything
>>looks ok. I have also played a lot of manual games and it is easy to see that
>>there is no difference at all. If mr Schroeder is correct it must be some kind
>>of problem with Rebel10. He had also published several hundred games that he
>>played with Rebel8 and Rebel9 and never claimed that it was something wrong with
>>them. He also promised to release a auto-player for Rebel10 but now he says it
>>will never appear. I hope that he can fullfill his promise, and release an
>>auto-player for Rebel10 when he releases his new program. I have bought Rebel10
>>with that promise in mind.
>>Bertil
>
>Right now he states that he won't deliver auto232 for DOS but is testing
>auto232WIN.
>BTW I don't have that much games, only about 100-200 but also didn't see
>suspicious things.
>Who knows what is going on.

Well, we can recall that the Crafty-Rebel NPS Match was canceled, I think part
of the reason was because Bob thought there were anomalies in the log files.  I
recall that he was having trouble getting Auto-232 working properly on machines
of all speeds at the same time -- not a surprise when you take a look at it. :)

Well, Rebel is going Windows (thankfully, I barely use it lately since I am
mostly running NT and Linux), and there is already a Crafty for Windows.  Maybe
someone will hook in the windows auto-232 code to Crafty and we can run the NPS
match reliably?

Dave Gomboc



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