Author: Walter Koroljow
Date: 05:57:19 09/06/99
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A few comments: 1) Thank you very much Ed for making our lives more interesting and exciting! 2) In all the posts so far I can only find mention of two Rebel moves that were not verified by Enrique Irazoqui. His post mentions only one such move, and that was later in the game. Does this mean that the game would have been identical with what happened up to move 40 or so if the hardware had worked correctly? 3) Does the game count? Yes, if you are interested in evaluating (Rebel+Kryotech) against grandmasters. No, if you are interested in evaluating Rebel, the software, against grandmasters. 4) Why would someone know better than AMD what speed their chip can run at? Because they had extensively tested it running cooled and AMD had not. 5) Was Nietzche right when he said that adversity makes us stronger? There is definite experimental evidence that it makes us (or at least laboratory test animals) weaker. Read "The Stress of Life" by Hans Selye. Animals were cooled, allowed to adapt to the cold, and then brought back to a normal environment. They were then found to be unable to withstand cold as well as animals that had not been cooled at all. Perhaps the AMD chip is weakened by repeated coolings.... Cheers, Walter
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