Author: Mark Young
Date: 09:57:28 07/15/01
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On July 15, 2001 at 12:49:55, Terry McCracken wrote: >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? Right, Grandmaster is only a title, but it is another nail in the coffen for those who think the best programs are not of "GM strength". > >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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