Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 15:58:17 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 18:11:51, Michael Cummings wrote: >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. Rajen says i do think that programmes can get weaker than their predecessors-it is an accepted fact (time and again mentioned in this forum)that the Genius3 is the srongest genius; also for Mchess pro-the strongest one is not the latest-and as you rightly pointed out rebel 6 is stronger thn 7; fritz 3 was stronger than 4 and 5.32 is stronger than 6(the original. not 6.69) rajen gupta >> >>>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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