Author: Marc Plum
Date: 19:35:44 02/27/99
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On February 27, 1999 at 16:19:46, Leon Stancliff wrote: (snip) Although very few grandmasters are willing to play at >ICC standard times, there were ten who had played enough games to be >significant. These ten grandmasters had ICC standard ratings of 2456. The same >ten had Fide ratings of 2541. Note that the standard ICC rating is 85 points >lower than the Fide rating. Obviously these standard games were played at much >shorter time limits than 40/2. (snip) Well, yes. The typical ICC "standard" game would be rapid or action chess in the OTB world. Slow enough for the GM to avoid many blunders, but fast enough that a computer's strategical and positional inferiority would be less of a handicap. Also, did your study include looking at the game history of these GMs? Were they in fact playing their standard games against computers or against other people? > Come on grandmasters. Let us see some more standard games at 30 0 against the >top computer programs! Losses do not take away from your prestige. Are you game? I can't speak for the grandmasters, but I suspect that most come to ICC to relax, which is why they tend to stick with bullet and blitz games. Marc Plum
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