Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 11:54:34 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? Justan update of What Paulo said They could use for openingsbook a large book just as I have a powerbook made from 800.000 Computer and Human games rated as least 2600 *and many anoteded so many sublines) Then White or Black simply has more options then 1 line Sometimes 3 or 4
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