Author: Mike Castañuela
Date: 17:24:44 02/09/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 19:51:48, Chris Carson wrote: >On February 09, 2000 at 18:27:11, Mike Castañuela wrote: > >> >>Next sunday is the minimatch (2 games, 1 hr per game) >>of Deep Junior vs. spansih GM Illescas. >> >>he has said that "It has a rating of 2700, a priori, >>I'm must be the victim,, but I trust in the experience gained >>working with Deep Blue-II, it must serve me well now". >> >>ClubKasparov assigns 2676 to DeepJunior based >>in games against humans (rapid and standard games). >> >>Q: If rating of PC programs (DJ as representative here) >> is aprox. 3000 Elo in 5 mins. Blitz, and 2700 in 1 hr, >> which is the rating to 2hr/40 moves? >> (is GM strength, above of 2600, contradicting the >> point of view of Prof. Hyatt?) >> >>Note: Its question not pretends start steril polemics, >>the question is by curiosity, experts, answer must be >>based in scientific data plus realistic perception. > >I am just a "C" class USCF rated player, so my opinion is >not worth much. :) Here is an opinion from IM Kaufman, I >consider this person to be one of the leading experts in this >field: > >"To fully appreciate just how strong Hiarcs 7 is, consider that its Swedish >rating of 2567 was earned on hardware (200 MHz MMX) markedly inferior to the >latest models (450-500 MHz). Moreover, the Swedish ratings are particularly >severe, almost certainly more conservative than FIDE ratings and far below USCF >ratings. These ratings are based on 40/2 games with other computers, with the >overall level of the list based on games with human competition some years ago. >Although I suspect that the level of the top computers may be a bit overstated >now due to failure to recalibrate the list based on today's GM level computers, >this should be offset by the severity of Swedish ratings in the past, so my >guess is that the 2567 rating at 200 MHz would hold up in FIDE competition >today, which would imply a FIDE rating over 2600 on today's fast machines. In >other words, HIARCS 7 plays tournament chess on a par with the top five players >in the U.S. This in turn implies that at action chess (game/30') HIARCS 7 >probably plays around 2700 FIDE level, on a par with the number ten player in >the world, and should play blitz better than Kasparov, Kramnik, and Anand. " > >Source: http://www.icdchess.com/wccr/software/Hiarcs7/lk.html > >I might add that the data strongly supports his statement. :) >see: http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/message.html?96126 > >Best Regards, >Chris Carson Many hanks to you and Dann by your response. IM Kaufman says clearly "2700 at 30 min blitz."; Now the quiestion is, how much decrease as control time goes up to 2 hr?
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