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Subject: Re: No one has answered my question with hard facts

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 13:53:51 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!!
>
>I think this theory is like saying that a not so pretty girl gas a very good
>personality!!
>
>rajen gupta

Why is the burden of proof on us? Why shouldn't you prove that Rebel is getting
weaker?

Presumably Ed doesn't just make some random changes to Rebel and call it a new
version. You have to give the guy SOME credit.

-Tom



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