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Subject: Re: My proposal to SSDF: decrease level by 100 points

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 12:26:43 07/28/00

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On July 28, 2000 at 14:38:04, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 28, 2000 at 07:55:55, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>>Nice work.  I had not done this for a while.
>>This seems to fit with what a lot of other people
>>have recommended in the past.  SSDF is looking into
>>this, I think they have done a great job.
>
>A real solution to the problem would be to pay ten GM's to play ten matches of
>ten games each against the top ten programs.  One thousand games provided in
>this way would be a real way to measure the true strength of chess programs.
>
>No other way is effective.

And this way is not feasible, so it's not effective either. Besides, it would
give at best a new global calibration, but wouldn't tell us in the future if
ratings based on comp-comp are also valid for human-comp. Are they? The
anti-computer games of Frankfurt and Dortmund wouldn't have been helped by a
faster search, so decisive in comp-comp; if machines are allowed in human
events, players will be less naive than now and play more anti-computer, with an
effect on ratings that won't be reflected by comp-comp lists.

Think negative! :)

Enrique



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