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

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 07:55:39 01/19/00

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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

I don't see either why in order to do well against humans a program must do
worse against programs. Better king safety and better evaluation functions
should reflect in comp-comp too. Is this too simplistic?

Enrique

>-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



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