Author: Vicente Fernández
Date: 20:47:29 11/12/99
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On November 12, 1999 at 23:32:51, Vicente Fernández wrote: >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. And sorry about the mismatching CCC handles. I just hapen to use a co-worker's password when I am at the office.
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