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Subject: Re: New GM Maurice Ashley - Who Here thinks he is not a GM level player?

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 10:02:46 06/19/01

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On June 19, 2001 at 12:44:48, martin fierz wrote:

>rating is just one number. like the IQ - you cannot measure a person's
>intelligence in one single number. similarly, reducing a chess player to one
>single number loses lots of information. take a look at some of these terrible
>games fritz SSS played at the dutch championship. come back and tell me again
>that this machine has GM strength :-)
>it certainly does have super-GM strength in some types of position, but in
>others it plays like a bloody beginner.
>a GM knows how to handle all kinds of positions, the machines don't - that's the
>difference. a GM can is good at all points listed under 2), a machine is not.

The programmers call these kind of blunders software bugs... ;)



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