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Subject: Re: Goal of GM Challenge

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 12:03:23 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?
An other option For Ed also could be every time use Rebel Century and use
diferent styles every time
So actualy my point of vieuw is yes computers are stronger then most GM's
Now it is only a point of showing it.



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