Author: John Warfield
Date: 01:57:46 02/03/00
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On February 02, 2000 at 16:38:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 02, 2000 at 16:12:58, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On February 01, 2000 at 22:31:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On February 01, 2000 at 17:27:20, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >>> >>>>Hi Chris, >>>> since you have collected the results of Rebel against strong human players at >>>>standard time controls, for the next update could you please compute: >>>>-Rebel's performance against players rated up to 2450 >>>>-Rebel's performance against players rated higher than 2450 >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>José. >>> >>> >>>BTW, since I haven't found any information on the DT Fredkin prize results, >>>listing time controls, I asked the 'source'. The answer: "all games for >>>the Fredkin prize were played at 40/2hr or slower (sometimes 40/2.5 as was >>>common a few years back.). >> >> I played some games at that time control! I also played at 40 moves in 135 >>minutes. I loved adjournments, they helped me to improve as I was highly >>motivated to analyze the adjourned positions, and they were quite common at >>those time controls (I even had one game adjourned twice!). >> >>> _None_ of the games were played at any faster >>>time control, as was stipulated by the original Fredkin Prize Rules." >>> >>>I assume that we can take that as factual, since the source was one of the >>>deep thought team during the Fredkin prize "hunt". >> >> Could you please be more specific? Who is the source? > > >I could, but since he doesn't post here, I want to respect his privacy. All >I can say is that he was a member of the team during the "fredkin hunt". I >had thought that the fredkin rules said 40/2hr time controls to exclude action >chess events, but wasn't sure. He reminded me that this was indeed correct for >_every_ game DT played that was counted for the Fredkin prize, which includes >the 2650 TPR. The 2551 did not 'win' the fredkin as USCF did count faster >games. How convient of you to hide behind the cloak of protecting someonelses privacy in order to avoid presenting the data.
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