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Subject: Re: About the REBEL-HOFFMAN game

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 09:45:44 09/06/99

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>Posted by Walter Koroljow on September 06, 1999 at 08:57:19:

>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?

Good question. I am currently testing this myself but are handicapped because
of all the time loss on the clock as I had to reboot several times and this
all cost time and therefore the time level had to be lowered and lowered after
each crash.

Ed Schroder


>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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