Author: Manuel Rodriguez Blanco
Date: 07:20:46 04/25/99
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On April 24, 1999 at 17:51:48, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 24, 1999 at 16:42:51, James Robertson wrote: > >>On April 24, 1999 at 15:06:31, Mark Young wrote: >> >>>From the Rebel site....www.rebel.nl >>>----------- >>>Monthly GM challenge. >>> >>>Due to the absence of strong Man versus Machine competitions Rebel company wants >>>to introduce a new initiative called The Monthly GM Challenge. >>> >>>The goal is that REBEL plays one LIVE tournament game against a grandmaster once >>>a month. Live coverage including Rebel analysis via the Rebel Home Page. >>> >>>Prizes: >>>$500 if the grandmaster wins against REBEL. >>>$250 for a draw. >>>No prize money in case of a loss against REBEL. >>> >>>We challenge every chess player with an official FIDE grandmaster title to take >>>the bite and play our program >>>----------- >> >>I think this proposal is even worse than a match. For instance, in a match, the >>GM only has to win more than the program to be successful... IE, he can win 1 >>and draw 3 and nobody will say the computer is his equal. Here however, if he >>plays one game, he HAS to win, or many people will be saying that "he could not >>overcome the computer, because it is his equal....." >> >>James > > >What's the problem? If the guy looses, he can come back next month and take his >revenge... > >Wouldn't this be interesting? Are you ready to offer some prize yourself? > > > Christophe Well said Christophe, i think this great idea and efford not deserves that type of comment
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