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

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 12:35:59 04/05/99

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On April 05, 1999 at 14:59:12, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>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

	Could you please give some details about the conditions of the NPS match?
Sounds very interesting.



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