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Subject: Re: Until I see the Grandmaster Sitting across the Table from rebel the game

Author: odell hall

Date: 11:03:35 09/07/99

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On September 07, 1999 at 13:54:25, odell hall wrote:

>The Games have little meaning, until they can be veriied that there is not foul
>play. It has already been shown that the grandmaster has access to kibs, so how
>can anyone take this event seriously?  It's obvious to me that something is
>wrong, Rebel has performed outstanding against grandmasters in the Aegon
>tournaments, on slower hardware, sorry but I can not buy the explanation that
>40/2 vs Aegon Game\90 +15 is a huge time difference. I still think ed should
>continue with these matches, if for nothing else other than the entertainment
>value, and exposure for his program, but as far as this being a scientific
>experiment to prove that computers, are or are not grandmasters, please give me
>a break there are to many problems. If there wasn't problems with this type of
>event, then why do you think that Fide, and the uscf does not conduct rated
>games over the internet?


So what it all boils down to is that we are all being asked to take the results
of these games on faith.



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