Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 22:49:31 05/23/99
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On May 23, 1999 at 22:44:04, Roger D Davis wrote: >It's only one game, certainly, but it doesn't really look like Rebel had much >understanding of the game from the time it left book (other's appraisals, not >mine), and Rebel's lose supports the argument that the micros have their own >weaknesses, and aren't yet a real match for GM players. > >So where does that leave previous opinions about a DB board for the desktop? >We'll have to see what the next months of Rebel-GM games hold, but the market >for a DB chip is starting to look better and better. > >If Rebel consistently loses to the GMs, doesn't this just set the market up for >the entry of Hsu? > >Roger Rebel is just one prgram, Fritz has won against GM's, and Anand lost to Rebel a while back, So yes it is only one game, and means very little apart from Ed losing some money. Plus still we have to see if the DB chip is going to evolve into something yet. And newer, Faster, more powerful computers and chips are coming out faster than you can blink, and programs are already being updated. It not like it is the gunfight at the OK Coral, where its do or die and there will only be one winner. Plus Rebel being played is a version which I do not think the public have tried or tested, for all we know, Rebel 10C could be better at beating humans than the one Ed used. I think what we need is some more high profile chess matches between humans and computers and see how things stand. Instead of GM's like Kasparov making bold statements about things. Untill GM's stop hiding behind their whimpy little selves and start taking on some programs in public matches then I think things are still up in the air. Computers at certain time levels can already beat GM's easily, now it is just a matter of tuning things till they can get their programs right. One day it will happen, Kasparov knows that, but admitting to it is another thing.
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