Author: Mark Young
Date: 08:23:18 03/29/98
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On March 29, 1998 at 11:04:51, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >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 ________________________________________________ I agree 100% it must be play with human players. When I said elo i meant Fide rating. I know some people who would argue that even if a computer got a 2550 fide rating they would not consider it a GM. I tend to agree that the rating is the only thing that should matter. But many people who I have respect for make good points in the other direction.
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