Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Something for GMs to think about A grand solution!? CORR.

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:07:50 06/17/00

Go up one level in this thread


On June 17, 2000 at 21:05:37, stuart taylor wrote:

>Maybe, computers should not take part in normal human tournaments, championships
>and leagues etc. but there should  be rated and well sponsored tournaments
>arranged for those humans who are actually interested in playing against
>computers at own risk (of losing etc.). And the incentives should be good prize
>money, and good elo ratings for winning games. Perhaps, there should be official
>computer ratings. If not too many honestly dispute it strongly (unless it can be
>scientifically concluded), perhaps it can be based on comp.vs. comp, and maybe
>combined with human (say, if there is a minimum of 100 serious tournament games
>to combine them with-although I'm not sure where those would come from).
>  Standard hardware only, should be used, or standard combinations of hardware,
>which must not be changed more than once in 3 years, to give plenty of time for
>conclusive evidence and record keeping etc.
>  If this system starts now with e.g. 4x500mhz. and if that is exactly identical
>in power to 2000mhz of pc's which will be available in half a year from now.
>then in 2 years from then, even if 2000mhz will be considered very slow, still
>it should be used for 6 months longer. By that time, I don't know if 2000mhz.
>will be all that bad, but 4-5000mhz may then be available. But also, there will
>probably be quite easy access to 10,000 or 20,000 power.
> 20,000mhz.will be 2000x10 the speed of the last 3 years, and about 100elo more
>in rating or even less. That can be determined for the next 3 years.
>  If there are cheap mainframes available all around the world by then, of about
>1 terrahertz, then perhaps they can be used.
>S.Taylor



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.