Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:21:14 06/20/01
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On June 20, 2001 at 10:54:47, Mark Young wrote:
>>The rules are different. In the USCF, to become a master, you simply have to
>>get your rating over 2200. Nothing else. In FIDE, to become a GM, you have to
>>get your rating over 2500 _and_ produce a 2600+ TPR over a bunch of games.
>>
>>pretty simple, really...
>
>Bob what Fide standards do you use for calling computers GM's at 5 min and 30
>min chess? You want to site the Fide standards for your claim on this, and I
>will retract my own standards for 40/2hours, and what Fide standard has a
>computer made for you claim that computers are International masters.
>
>Is Bob Hyatt the only one who can come up with his own standards. Very
>Hypocritical.
Nonsense. We all have our own standards. All these discussions are only about
our own opinions anyhow. He never said Fide announced they were blitz GMs and
OTB IMs. He stated this as his opinion. What else could it be? There's no such
thing as a GM-strength title is there? As to differentiating between Blitz and
40/2 I *really* don't understand your arguments at all, with all due respect. Do
you really intend to argue that blitz results are somehow indicative of 40/2
results?
Just as a sidenote, I don't think you will convince him they are GMs (or
GM-strength) by starting 257 threads on the subject with tons of stats on how
weak GMs can sometimes be or become. For example, one of your threads states
Westerinen was less than 2500 Elo some 25 years ago. So what? How does this
suddenly make Deep Junior, or any program for that matter, a GM?
Albert
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