Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:59:59 09/06/99
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On September 06, 1999 at 08:57:19, Walter Koroljow wrote: > >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. Right... Kryotech knows _exactly_ what they are doing. :) Ed didn't have a hardware problem at all. When you play on the leading edge, you often end up on the bleeding edge. Ed bled a lot this time. > >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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