Author: Chessfun
Date: 09:50:49 01/07/00
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On January 07, 2000 at 12:40:09, Albert Silver wrote: > >There is no conversion scale. I readily accept that the Fidelity Par Excellence >is 1835 as this was backed up by testing against human players, but the rest is >pure extrapolation. Here is how Chess Tiger's 2696 (-30 to get the FIDE rating >of course) was achieved (very roughly as there were more computers involved but >the system is the same): > >Mephisto MM4 beat the Par Excellence (1835) 12.5-7.5 and was thus rated 1904. >Mephisto Roma 68000 beat the MM4 (1904) 19-9 and was thus rated 1970. >Fidelity Mach III beat the Roma 68000 (1970) 139.5-96.5 and was thus rated >1993. Mephisto Lyon 68020 beat the Mach III (1993) 19-8 and was thus rated >2150. Fritz 3 on a 486/66 beat the Lyon (2150) 13-7 and was thus rated 2257. >Genius 2.0 on a 486/66 beat Fritz3 (2257) 12-9 and was thus rated 2336. >Hiarcs 4 on a P90 beat Genius 2.0 (2336) 11-9 and was thus rated 2392. > >[Note that no humans have anything to do with this] > >Rebel 8.0 on a P90 beat Hiarcs 4 (2392) 11.5-8.5 and was thus rated 2438. >Mche9ss Pro 8.0 on a P200MMX beat Rebel 8.0 (2438) 12-8 and was thus rated >2492. Junior 5 on a P200MMX beat MCPro 8.0 (2492) 14.5-9.5 and was thus rated >2542. Chess Tiger 12 on a K6-2/450 beat Junior 5 (2542) 31.5-14.5 and was thus >rated 2696. > >Conclusion: > >We can now confidently say Chess Tiger 12 is about 2666 FIDE (minus the 30 >extraneous points so kindly admitted by the SSDF), which is a little stronger >than Victor Korchnoi, Judit Polgar, Yasser Seirawan, and World FIDE champion >Alexander Khalifman, and just a few points shy of Peter Svidler, Nigel Short, >Boris Gelfand and Anatoly Karpov, BECAUSE: > >it beat Junior 5 which beat Mchess Pro 8 which beat Rebel 8.0 which beat Hiarcs >4.0 which beat Genius 2.0 which beat Fritz 3 which beat the Mephisto Lyon 68020 >which beat the Fidelity Mach III which beat the Mephisto Roma 68000 which beat >the mephisto MM4 which beat the Fidelity Par Excellence which was rated 1835 >back in 1989! > >Yes!!!! >I see it now! >It is all so clear! >Enlightenment!!!!! > > Albert Silver Excellent post made a lot of fun reading it and a lot of sense. It deserved a page on it's own. Thanks.
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