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

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 16:47:55 09/07/99

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On September 07, 1999 at 14:03:35, odell hall wrote:

>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.


It has taken you several months and a lot of complaining to come to this rather
obvious conclusion, Odell.

It's a shame that you have so little faith in the honesty of the GMs.

--Peter




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