Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:05:27 02/13/00
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On February 13, 2000 at 20:57:12, Bradley Woodward wrote: >On February 13, 2000 at 17:48:35, John Kilkenny wrote: > >> No attack, Just answr the question dude. His name is brought up because he >>is the most ardent supporter of the anti comp GM campaign. Also in the minds of >>many, he holds sway over the minds of the uneducated bretheren of chess. We >>fight for the release of those minds :). > >I just had a look at the 'best c' list on ICC. That's the list that shows the >top 20 human and computer players. Out of the 20 in the blitz list, only three >are computers. This is a big difference from a while ago. Ferret plows in at >#2, throwing my otherwards cool point into a spin. But you get that. I believe that had ferret been active over the past few months, its rating would have dropped significantly as well. I think it might be the best thing on ICC, but there are a lot of new players there, using faster and faster hardware, with strong programs. None of us are +400 over the commercial programs, even with a fairly significant hardware advantage. This 'advantage' is almost gone now, with the super-G lonnies has actually being faster than my quad xeon by 30% (factoring in SMP overhead). > >My opinion is that computers rule blitz and standard games. 30/0 has been owned >by silicion for a while, and now it seems that 60/0 has fallen too. > >As a geek and a terrible chess player, I look to computers to visit revenge on >those better than me. Call me petty and shallow - I can take it. > >Before I start telling my co-workers and friends that GMs are a doomed species, >I'll need more than a few 60/0 games. But we're very close. Just look at >Rebel. It's winning some games from GMs at 40/2 - go Ed! But it's losing quite >a few too, sometimes to mistakes and bad judgement that GMs just do not make, >and that I believe is Bob's point. > >I must add, that the 'best c' list in standard is 100% human.
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