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

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 15:11:51 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 16:09:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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!!
>
>Your questions answer is too obvious. Of course it doesn't get weaker.
>it remains playing the same moves in the same positions. of course it
>doesn't SUDDENLY play a weaker move now.
>
>>I think this theory is like saying that a not so pretty girl gas a very good
>>personality!!
>>
>>rajen gupta

I read somewhere that one of the Rebels, 7 I think was actually worse than 6. I
think that was a clear case of a program playing worse.

That is from what I heard.



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