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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 07:19:34 10/10/00

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On October 10, 2000 at 10:07:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

My mistake.

Tony



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