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Subject: Re: Update on Rebel -Lithuania Re-match?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 20:36:40 10/16/99

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On October 16, 1999 at 14:38:56, odell hall wrote:

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>  First of all I don't know of anyone that is claiming programs are 2600+ at
>40/2.


What about Larry Kaufman? What about Kasparov? You brought these two's opinions
up many times before we had actual games....

James



>The projections I have heard was 2500+.  And since Rebel is very near that
>rating now, I don't see why this is considered so rediculous. You state that you
>"believe" the rating would drop if the match was repeated seven times. Can you
>give some statistics or evidence to back this up? Frankly the idea that humans
>somehow are going to improve 100 pts against humans over time is somewhat
>suspect to me.  Could you give me a specific example of what you mean? Are you
>saying the human for instance will discover some weakness in how the program
>handles the kings indian, or sicilian and thus exploit that weakness? I guess
>this whole idea is unclear.  Since the computers book will navigate it around
>many of these problems I really cannot see what you mean.



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