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Subject: Re: Deep blue chip-more than 70% of the voters think that it is not strong

Author: blass uri

Date: 11:01:41 06/01/99

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On June 01, 1999 at 13:52:33, Paul Richards wrote:

>On May 31, 1999 at 18:00:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>Let me tell you a short 'story' to explain why such 'polls' are useless.
>
>I think such a poll is completely pointless.  We may as well have a
>poll on how many hurricanes will occur this year.  As far as whether
>the thing will rate at 2800+ or not, again we'll just have to see.
>Kasparov stated that in his opinion DB2 played sometimes at 3000,
>sometimes much less, but in any case it was definitely in his ballpark.

kasparov did not talk about the ssdf rating(against computers)
The question in the opinion poll is only about the ssdf rating and the
performance against humans is not relevant

Uri



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