Author: blass uri
Date: 09:22:24 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 11:42:02, Pete Galati wrote: >On April 12, 2000 at 09:07:37, blass uri wrote: > >>On April 12, 2000 at 08:59:21, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >> >>>I disagree, >>> >>>Kasparov has taken on teams of several GM's at once before, and won handily. I >>>believe it was the German National team two or three years ago (Somebody please >>>correct me if I'm wrong). If Today's programs are GMs at 40/2 (which I believe >>>to be the case, but which has not been conclusively proven yet), then they are >>>fairly average GMs, i.e. 2500-2550 FIDE. I would bet that Kasparov could defeat >>>32 FIDE 2500 GM's in a simul. Probably not with a lopsided score, but still >>>probably something in the neighborhood of 18-14. I'm about USCF 2200, and >>>believe that I could defeat a team of 1850s/1900s with a similar score, and that >>>is a similar rating differential. Additionally, I think it would be even easier >>>for Kaspy against the comps, as even the best micros still have identifiable and >>>exploitable weaknesses, and Kaspy has a great deal of experience against comps. >>>Against today's comps, I'd venture a score of perhaps 20-12 in favor of Kaspy. >>> >>>Chris >> >>I disagree >> >>Kasparov had problems against Genius3 in 25 minutes/game and it was with old >>hardware(he lost 1.5:.5 against p90 and won 1.5:.5 against p120). >> >>kasparov probably can get only 50% if he plays against 6 computers in a >>simultan(3 hours/game) because he has only 30 minutes against every computer and >>I assume that kasparov is at the same level as computers in 30 minutes/game. >> >>2 hours/40 moves is something close to 3 hours/game so I expect 50% against 6 >>computers and less than 50% against 32 computers. >> >>Uri > >Right, there's a huge difference in computers from 1985 (not all _that_ long >ago) and computers of today. It wasn't such a great feat for a grandmaster to >do a simul against that many computers of that day. And to be honest, I didn't >see any mention of how it was 32 computers with heavy hardware or if it was just >a bunch of Radio Shack desktop computer. > >I agree, he'd take a bath against 32 comuters today. But he's pretty smart, I'm >sure he wouldn't attempt a simul against 32 modern computers. > >Pete I think that he can win convincingly a simul against 32 computers if the time control is not 2 hours/40 moves but 120 hours/40 moves.(the game can take some weeks) Uri
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