Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 06:46:52 10/06/98
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On October 05, 1998 at 23:59:49, odell hall wrote: > >I could not say for sure what it is rated. I have owned the saitek GK2100, I can >only say that it is not rated 2330 by no strectch of the Imagination!!! Although >I would say that the Novag Saffire may accurately be rated in this range. I am >rated only 1900 Uscf and I can beat the GK21000 at will. Having played many >masters and True Human 2100's I can only say the The GK2100 is no where near >master strength having much to many endgame weakness. The true strength of the >program lies in its tactical strength. I have noticed though that a very careful >human can even outplay it in this area. I would rate it from personal expierence >to be probally around 2070 uscf at 40/2hrs and about 2150 at action chess. I believe that the 2334 rating has arisen from the "official" rating of the U.S. Chess Federation. But since they allow chess computers to play under Action Chess conditions (game in 30 minutes), of course the rating is much higher than it truly deserves. The general rule of thumb is that you may subtract 60 to 100 points from an Action Chess rating to get the tournament time rating. Therefore, GK 2100 would be rated between 2234 and 2274. However, since the "official" rating is garnered from only 48 games against humans, there is a fairly large standard deviation of error. My guess for the GK 2100 now would be about 2100-2150 at 40 moves in 2 hours. We spend a good portion of our day here explaining to people why our ratings estimates of chess computers are lower than the U.S. Federation's "official" ratings. And unfortunately, even though we may be talking about the EXACT model as the Federation, the customer may decide that the unit the Federation is selling is better. This policy of giving manufacturers the opportunity to get "official" ratings based upon "fast" chess is totally misleading and should have been halted long ago, but it continues to this day. Perhaps you can guess why that is! - Steve (ICD/Your Move)
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