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

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 00:34:23 04/06/99

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On April 05, 1999 at 15:35:59, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>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.

Best would be to check the Rebel website (www.rebel.nl).  I think Schroder BV
still has a page on it somewhere there.

Dave Gomboc



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