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Subject: Re: What rating has a compterprogram 2010?

Author: David Blackman

Date: 02:12:28 04/11/00

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On April 11, 2000 at 00:44:34, Georg Langrath wrote:

>1n 1980 a compterprogram had about 1300 ELO-ratimg.

Chess 4.7 was probably around 2000 rating before 1980. 1300 might be about right
for the best microcomputer programs in 1980. (That's 1300 by 1980 standards. I
think the average 1000 player today should beat any microcomputer program from
1980).

>1990 2000 ELo-rating.

I think Deep Thought existed and was starting to get good around 1990. Probably
2300 or better. The best microcomputers were probably still a little below 2000,
but they improved a lot soon after this.

>2000 about 2700 Elo-rating.

The best microcomputers now are probably not quite that good. Deep Blue and the
best supercomputer programs seem to be retired. The best programs still playing
now seem to be somewhere in the range 2400 to 2700. No one is sure exactly what
rating.

>700 more every 10 years. Somebody that has the courage to
>guess where Elorating is 2010? It will be easy to control
>if this message-group is still left. Yes I guess 700 Eloratings
>more, and that nobody but machines can win over them then,
>I think this will depend most on faster hardware.
>
>Georg

Hardware improvements on their own should be enough to get computers to between
2800 and 3200 by 2010. However i expect software improvements to be even more
important, resulting in computers stronger than 3500 by then.



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