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

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 01:25:56 09/24/01

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On September 22, 2001 at 17:12:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 22, 2001 at 13:06:54, Marc van Hal wrote:
>
>>Acording to the programmer it would have a rating of 2345
>>After which Donner told them they realy did do everything to mislead the people
>>
>>To my point of vieuw he was right
>>
>>Marc van Hal
>
>
>I think it would certainly be a 2300 player in the USCF.  It pretty well
>proved that over time. It could search 160K nodes per second, so it wasn't
>a slouch...

Belle was lucky enough to be around before anti-computer knowledge became
widespread - and before everyone and his dog had their own chess computer.

I think on that basis, you'd have to knock a few hundred points off now.

-g

>I don't know what the "Donner" comment is all about however.  Ken never did
>_anything_ to mislead anybody.



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