Author: odell hall
Date: 02:30:00 10/03/99
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On October 02, 1999 at 18:48:38, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 02, 1999 at 18:39:12, odell hall wrote: >> If you add up the Results of all the 40/2 games played in the last year by the >>top programs, including the rebel 10 results, and the games at the wcc99 as well >>as the shredder, Karpov game, you get +2500 easily. Grandmaster strength without >>a doubt, any other conclusions is simply ignoring evidence right in front of >>your eyes. But if you want to just take rebel's results so far, you get the same >>thing over 2500! All the critics are silenced!! >There are nearly enough games to give a provisional rating. I think Rebel has >done surprisingly well. > >However, the critics will never be silenced. Who ever heard of silent critics? > >Given enough games for a mathematical basis we can make some definite >statements. But just look at the funny things that happen during play. For >instance, during the Hiarcs Junior match in SSDF recently, Junior started off >with the upper hand. Many immediately lept to the conclusion that Hiarcs was an >overrated bag of wayward electrons. Zip -- a big comeback. > >IOW, a few games do not tell us much of anything. Indeed, exactly how many >games do we have at 40/2 where something was at stake? Dann I don't know if I can buy the line that something must be at stake for the game to be real. Why don't you try beating or even drawing a grandmaster under any circumstance. What's at stake is usually Ego, no grandmaster likes to lose, how do you think they got to be grandmasters in the first place?? Grandmasters just don't give away games, under any circumstance, unless ofcourse they are experimenting on icc or something, But an official event like the Wcc99 where millions of people are watching, i don't care if one penny is on the line, they are going to play their hardest. So this money ideal is beloney to me. Also I don't need more games, all I need is my good common sense, when I see a programmer like Schredder Drawing World champion (2700+) Karpov, And Rebel Drawing Annand, And Fritz beating 2600+ Sokolov, this is enough for me , I know that no international master could achieve such results, and if he has please let me know!, I will come back and retract all that I have said.
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