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Subject: Re: Rebel Century

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 06:43:01 10/19/99

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On October 18, 1999 at 17:12:29, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On October 18, 1999 at 13:01:52, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>>You mean that then top programs will be definitively of GM strenght? Well, this
>>is a tricky issue. It depends if you just take score in games against GM OR if
>>you analyze the quality of the games. Respect the first point, probably top
>>programs will collect -with faster machines- enought points to be consider at
>>least as average GM; facts are many games are decided, even in GM level, by
>>tactical strikes and so, no matter how bad or mediocre is his position, they
>>always can win to anybody with a kind of unpolite blow in he head.
>>Nevertheless, if quality matters, I thinks even top programs running in monster
>>machines are far under what a GM can see in the board. In fact, of what even an
>>expert level player -like me, thanks God- can see, no matter what and even
>>accepting that the best glance does not guaranty the full point. I see better
>>than Rebel, so I believe, but Rebel win to me 9 of ten times due to tactical
>>shots I just did not see at all or I saw without enough deep.
>>cheers
>>fernando
>
>Dear Fernando,
>
>Maybe Ed Schroder can distill what's in your head and give us a new more
>human-like program called Rebel-the Villegas edition. It sounds good to me.
>Maybe he could put in a subroutine that would tell us what Fernando would do.
>We could select that as the computers'move and proceed from there.
>
>The above idea may indeed be a feature of future chess programs.  The only
>problem that I could see would be all the Emails that Fernando Villegas would
>get asking if,indeed, that was what Fernando would play.
>
>Hmm,  Rebel 2000--the Villegas Edition...the Capablanca Edition....the Kamsky
>Edition....the Fischer Edition.......the Karpov Edition...
>
>

Good idea, but I do not see reasons to be putted side by side with those
patzers like capablanca, fisher, etc..... At most, a Tim F. edition to complete
the package.
:-)
Fernando
>Tim Frohlick



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