Author: Mark Young
Date: 17:03:50 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 19:23:01, John Wentworth wrote: >After Cray Blitz won the 1983 World Computer Chess championship it's rating was >2153. The Cray supercomputer from that time is still much faster than today's >PC's ever dreamed of being yet Cray Blitz's rating was much lower than todays PC >programs. In another post here, Robert Hyatt mentioned that Cray Blitz would >beat Crafty based on hardware. So I guess my conclusion here is that either the >rating of 2153 back in 1983 for Cray Blitz was way off or the estimated rating >of Crafty and other current PC's are way off. In my opinion, Cray Blitz running >on a Cray Supercomputer would still blow away any of the current programs >running on any PC today. I guess I have to think that the rating of 2153 was WAY >off. Any other opinions? Bob can correct me if I am wrong, but was not this rating based on games played against humans, or computers that had ratings playing humans. If I remember right, I think there was a prize for the first computer to achive and hold a master rating playing humans of 2200 which I think Belle won. So I think the rating may be pretty close to accurate because of this fact.
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