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Subject: Re: Match between Rebel & IM Is it really gonna happen?

Author: Vicente Fernández

Date: 20:32:51 11/12/99

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On November 12, 1999 at 19:14:28, odell hall wrote:

>On November 12, 1999 at 17:05:16, Ramón Martínez wrote:
>
>>IM Guil Russek (2396 elo, Russek on ICC,) has accepted to play a 6 game match,
>>40/2 20/1 1/g against the new Rebel Century, running on a K6II 300, 128 mgb Ram.
>>I wrote to Mr. Schroder asking for the best settings, concerning openings books,
>>hash tables, learning modes and so on, but I got no response from him. Can
>>anyone suggest the strongest settings for this match and, do you think that I
>>should let Mr. Russek play a few games against the program before the match? I
>>will post the games here, of course. Thanks in advance.
>>Vicente F. Herrasti
>
>
> Hi
>
> I must say after so many disappointments in the past at this board from people
>who  have arranged Phantom  matches only to have it come to nothing, I am a bit
>sceptical, however I hope it actually happens.  Do you have a real committment
>from the I.M.?  Is there any money involved, or is it just  a fun match that the
>IM decided would interesting for him?

It is going to happen. And no, there is no money involved. Mr. Russek is my
friend since we met as author and publisher. He has authored two chess books in
the publishing house that I work on as Foreign Books Manager. Since then, we
have had long discussions about computer chess. We decided upon the match
against Rebel Century because it is the only program he has never played
against. He is a very serious player who has reached a 2435 elo on the January
1998 list and, as a person an author, he has always been a reliable fellow. If
he says yes (as he did about ten days ago and yesterday's morning) you can be
sure that the match is going to take place. We have to settle a convenient date
for each game, because he told me that he is playing on two tournaments (Mérida
and Los Angeles) in the following months.



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