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Subject: Re: How high would the Rating of Belle realy be

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:39:45 09/23/01

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On September 23, 2001 at 07:14:49, guy haworth wrote:

>
>Thompson and Condon won the 1st Fredkin Prize - for the 1st chess engine to be
>rated as a USCF Master.
>
>This was done only on the basis of its games against humans.
>
>This seems to me to give the best info on what its rating might have been at one
>time.  I'm sorry - I don't know what USCF rating it was actually given to
>justify the USCF Master title.
>
>G

It was 2208.  But that included "old" ratings from old versions prior to the
160K node per second hardware (ie based on the 1978 5K node per second
hardware).  When it passed 2200 on the USCF scale, it was awarded the life
master certificate.  This was awarded by Dave Welch at the 1983 WCCC event in
NYC.  I'm not sure what the rating ended up at, however.  He played in several
events after that 2208 rating was earned, including the World Open and others,
where he did pretty well...



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