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Subject: Re: Super GM Result for Computers!!

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 07:20:18 06/22/99

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On June 21, 1999 at 13:15:16, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 20, 1999 at 13:14:24, odell hall wrote:
>>Hi CCC
>>  I Guess no one has any lame excuses about this result, since the time control
>>was 40/2. I think it now clear to everyone the computers have reached the
>>grandmaster level!!.  Show me a team of internation masters that could achieve
>>such results in a million years! And this was not one game!! , but Five!

>Despite your insistent pleas, this is not evidence of GM level.  GM norms are
>mathematically described in the rules for FIDE, USCF, or similar governing
>bodies.  When computers have managed to perform as described, then they will be
>playing at GM level.  Since they have not, we cannot say that they are and we
>also cannot say that they are not.  We really do not know.  To pretend that we
>do know is bad science.

How is the chance of getting a FIDE-title for a chess program? What does the
FIDE charter say about chee programs competing in human tournaments? What does
USCF say?




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