Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 01:20:47 09/09/99
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On September 09, 1999 at 02:30:34, Howard Exner wrote: >The GM Challenge will undoubtedly mean different things for different people. >For some it is like an entertaining sporting event. The games themselves hold >the interest, whether one is watching them live or replaying them later on. It's >fun to watch how the game unfolds. Did the GM effortlessly blow away the >computer or was the game a closely contested battle? > >Another goal for some may be to use these series of games to gage a rating for >Rebel. I guess that's fine too >but once we churn out a rating for Rebel what >can that rating be compared to? What other player or computer has such a rating >based >on the playing format of the GM Challenge - that is, match play against GM's >given one or more months notice? Computers entered in tournaments (Junior >playing in Israel or Rebel in the Dominican Republic as examples) at least have >some kind of reference point of comparison. > >How are others seeing this event? As a fun >display of GM vs computer or as some kind of >scientific research for gaging a rating or both? Or some other view? My main interest in these games is to know the relative force of the programs against GMs (I think that the results obtained by Rebel serve as reference for the other top programs). The great problem is that GMs has a long time to get ready for the games and logically they use own Rebel during the preparation. Naturally when a GM gets ready to play with other, he studies its opponent's games, but it doesn't remain doubt that the advantage of having Rebel at home for preparation is very larger. Any critic to GMs, but this does with that the results don't demonstrate the one that me and many of us probably want really to know, the relative force between the programs and GMs. The great challenge at this time is to know what suggestions we coulded to give for Ed in the sense that these problems don't harm Rebel. To mark the games with less antecedence would be great, but I think impracticable, same because a programming already exists. I also think that to play against GMs the openings book should be reformulated, but I also believe that that should be very difficult, because I think that to play an opening against a GM it's not enough to have a conventional book, but a much more complex book, that takes besides in consideration possible inferior lines prepared by GM that the programs have difficulty to refute. Finally, which I have to say now it is that when Rebel Team began with " Monthly GM challenge ", I didn't imagine that so much variables could influence in the result. Paulo
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