Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 09:49:55 07/15/01
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On July 15, 2001 at 12:24:01, Mark Young wrote: >On July 15, 2001 at 10:57:47, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On July 15, 2001 at 07:58:10, odell hall wrote: >> >>>Don't do what you did on the Van Diel Wiel match and Renig, you said if rebel >>>beat Van Der Wiel then computers are GM's , But you back out. >> >>First Dr. Hyatt is away for a week. So he won't even see you message! Didn't you >>read he was off for a holiday? >> >>Second, GM John van der Wiel played a very short match with Rebel Century, and >>the first time he'd ever lost a match to computer, and that was by a mere point. >> >>GM John van der Wiel is an excellent player but not a 2600+ GM, at least not at >>present. Yet he could turn a second match with Rebel Century around I'm sure. >>Not putting down Rebel, it's an excellent chess program, but not a World Class >>GM 2600+, at least not yet!;) >> >>Third, GM Huebner isn't a young man anymore, so I doubt he can play like he is! > >I don't understand your point. GM Huebner is a active Grandmaster with a current >Fide Rating of 2600+. So GM Huebner must play like a 2600+ Grandmaster at his >current age, since his rating is that good. Maybe, but I'm sure he fatigues more often than a 2600+ 20 year old GM with an equal rating. So he may have times when he performs below is rating. That's my point! > >If GM Huebner loses the match to Fritz, Fritz will have beaten a standing 2600+ >Fide Grandmaster. Yes that's true. But does it make Deep Fritz on a dual P-III with a Gig. of Ram, a Grandmaster? I don't believe so. > >> >>Forth, do you know more than Professor Hyatt? Are you a programmer? Better yet >>are you a GM?? >> >>I don't know anything about you odell hall with the exception, you could show a >>little more respect! >> >>As for the todays' game GM Huebner played Black and brought about a draw on move >>23! >> >>So we'll see for fun how the rest of the very short match will go;) Myself, I >>don't think tiny matches such as these have any great value in determining >>whether a program has reached the GM level, only that these programs can give a >>GM a good fight, and may win from time to time. >> >>Give both technology and programming another 5 years and I believe by then we'll >>have _solid_ GM 2600+ chess playing monsters! >> >>Terry
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