Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:04:51 03/29/98
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On March 29, 1998 at 10:32:49, Mark Young wrote: >What standards should be used to judge if a computer program is of >grandmaster strenght? Should we use a rating standard and say if a >computer reaches 2550 elo then its of grandmaster strenght, or do we >need to study how it wins. Does the program need to have the positional >understanding of a grandmaster to be one? I ask this because the micros >are very close if not already there to meet some of the standards. What >standards should we use to say yes this program is of grandmaster >strenght? I think its telling that a top GM like Anand would even >consider playing Rebel, unless he had some respect for the way the >micros are now playing. > > Mark Young Hi Mark: I suppose a program or Godzilla, whatever, should be considered of GM strenght level if gets enought elo points beating GM human players, not other computers. Any system of measument only has sense inside the pool of data where it was done. A program can have a 2600 elo measured against other programs and it's OK, but that rating cannot be considered as meaning a GMI standard in human terms. Then, if inside the human pool a program gets the rating, it does not mmatter how, if thorught knowledge or sheer speed. Issues about undesrtanding are confusing and shadowy, elo points gotten in competion are not. fernando
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