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Subject: Re: How many GHZ for IGM to never win and then always lose? -- Never.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:24:48 08/31/00

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On August 31, 2000 at 15:06:24, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>Title:   Grandmaters in Gigahertz  (catchy title, anagram)
>What are the predictions for the IGM's?
>I predict at 200 GHZ the IGM's will draw or lose
>(40 moves in 2 hours and sudden death in 1 or 2 hours, standard tournament time
>control).
>
>Then at 3,000 GHZ the IGM's will always lose.
>(same time control as above 40mvs in 2hrs., SD in 1 or 2 hrs.)
>
>The software is there, but the hardware is lagging.
>Jonathan (53rd message)

There is no frequency at which point IGM's will always lose, unless the
frequency is infinite.  In fact, let's make it an ordinary IM.

Suppose that at 4096GHz, we have an ELO of 3000 (which would be a pretty good
estimate if we could get that fast somehow).  And suppose our IM has an ELO of
2400.  That's a difference of 600 points.  Our IGM will still score 3% of the
points.  That's not a lot, but while the scoring drops off precipitously, it
*never* gets to zero.  No matter how large the ELO difference becomes.





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