Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:30:41 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 14:15:14, Rajen Gupta wrote: >I asked about rebel geting weaker, progressively-and every body said ''that's >unlikely, or not true'' or words to that effect but no-one has actually shown >games or tournaments where subsequent versions of rebel are doing progressively >better-also there is no evidence that strength against other computers, means >weakness against humans-first of all there are very few games played by >successive versions of rebels against humans as eveidence of this dubious theory >and secondly fritz 5/6 has the best results against both humans and against >computers!! What sort of hard facts will you find convincing? Rebel is having excellent results against human players. That is Ed's stated goal, and he is clearly achieving it. Rebel has some sort of problems with autoplayer (as do other programs -- notably crafty had a problem with the command sequence -- others may as well). Rebel has not been tested on the SSDF (by the author's request) so it is hard to say what is happening in that department. Since Ed's new version of the software will have the ability to play on the internet, we should be able to test fairly in the future. At such a time, Rebel's strength verses computers should be possible to gague more accurately. >I think this theory is like saying that a not so pretty girl gas a very good >personality!! All women are beautiful. At least they are better looking than us (men). A good personality is more important than a nice wrapper over the top. At some point the wrapper dulls and wrinkles. The part that you cannot see does not need to falter with time. Of course, that's easy for me to say. My wife's a babe! ;-)
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