Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:47:50 08/15/99
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On August 15, 1999 at 03:25:48, Micheal Cummings wrote: >After seeing two draws and a loss for Rebel, my second favorite program after >CM6K is sadly becoming sorry to look at. I do not think that this is a good >sales pitch for Rebel. Its fine getting the publicity in playing these games, >but if you cannot get a win then things start to get old real fast. > >The first two games drew some comment in CCC. But I have seen very little with >this third game. I think that if after 5 games Rebel has not won and it is still >being played on the same hardware, either change the plan or dump it. Rebel can >not become a program that tries to compete against strong humans and does not >win. > >I know more games needed to be played with humans against computers and this is >great. But my current view of Rebel and the upcoming Rebel windows realease is >that the partnership with chesspartner interface is a step down and I think the >current non winning Rebel on powerful hardware is not doing it any service. > >Lets hope rebel can turn this down period around and get back on track. I am >many others like winners. Appearence is everything. And Rebel is not appearing >well at the moment. Lets hope this changes in Rebels favour soon. GM Sorin said Rebel played very well. Yesterday GM Rohde told me he hadn't seen Rebel make one single bad move. Personally I am very satisfied with these 2 draws in a row. I have seen these GM's at Aegon crushing computers and I was always impressed in the way they did that, slowly killing the silicon on positional grounds. GM's are by far superior when the topic is understanding the game of chess and that will remain for a very long time and maybe even after 100 years. Two years ago the discussion was, do computers play at IM level. We seem to have passed this discussion as we now wonder about the GM strength. I have to much respect for GM's and their skills of chess to say Rebel plays on GM level yet. Let's wait for next games. Ed Schroder
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