Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:12:59 09/24/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 04:25:56, Graham Laight wrote: >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. Not quite. I know of several "practitioners" back then. David Levy being the best-known. He completely smashed Cray Blitz with "anti-computer" play in 1984, for example. He Smashed Chess 4.x in the late 70's and early 80's. Deep Thought was the first program aggressive enough to break through his anti-computer stuff and wipe him out without a single draw or loss. I believe Belle would _still_ be a > 2200 player in today's chess world... > >I think on that basis, you'd have to knock a few hundred points off now. > >-g > I don't think so. If you look at the games it played vs humans, "anti-computer" was not uncommon. We almost got beat by a 1700 player in the 1981 chess tournament Cray Blitz won, due to his playing an anti-computer attack. How to beat chess computers was already well-understood. As seen in various events like the Fredkin matches, etc. >>I don't know what the "Donner" comment is all about however. Ken never did >>_anything_ to mislead anybody.
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