Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: In Terms Of GMs, Have PCs Hit A Brick Wall?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:07:58 10/10/00

Go up one level in this thread


On October 10, 2000 at 09:00:28, Tony Werten wrote:

>On October 10, 2000 at 07:31:37, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 2000 at 07:05:45, Graham Laight wrote:
>>
>>>It seems to me that PCs' results against GMs are tapering off into a flat line.
>>>The current style of program may have come as far as they can go.
>>>
>>>The battle to generate the highest NPS score is no longer improving the
>>>computers' performance against humans. Even Deep Junior running on a quad
>>>processor is only able to score 4.5/9 against the top players.
>>
>>Only???
>>
>>4.5/9 is a wonderful result.
>>
>>No longer improving the computers performance???
>>
>>4.5/9 against players with average rating of 2700 is the best result of
>>computers against humans(if I do not include the result of Deeper blue).
>>
>>It is even better than the result of deep blue(1996) against kasparov.
>
>?????
>
>If numbers tell you that scoring 50 % against the almost best players is better
>than defeating the best player then you at least have to consider if those
>numbers are wrong.
>
>cheers,
>
>Tony

I was talking about Deep blue 1996.

I think that getting 50% against the players that Deep Junior played is better
than losing 4:2 against kasparov.

I did  not say that it is better than winning kasparov but the match that
kasparov lost was in 1997.

Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.