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Subject: Re: Compare Kasparov's middle game with comp.; how many GHZ matches his?

Author: Stephen A. Boak

Date: 10:12:45 09/01/00

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On September 01, 2000 at 11:44:52, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>Statistically speaking I'd like to find how many GHZ does it match an IGM middle
>game.
>For example, using a 1 GHZ comp. use Kasparov's middle game (30th move until the
>50th move), when he played 40 moves in 2 hours time control.
>With 1 GHZ, you could let it run for 12 or 24 hours, and see if that Kasparov
>move makes the same move by the computer.
>You can then say (with tounge and cheek, very unofficial, 90 percent of
>Kasparov's moves happened at 500 GHZ or less).
>
>If your 1 GHZ took 24 hours to find the move, then it matched 480 GHZ.
>(24 hours divided by 3 minutes per move equals 480)
>If your 1 GHZ took 12 hours to find the move, then it matched 240 GHZ.
>(12 hours divided by 3 minutes per move equal 240)
>
>3 minutes per move came from 40 moves in 2 hours.
>
>This will take "hours" or "a day" to figure out, but we can figure out where
>Kasparov stands on faster computers in the future.
>Jonathan (59th message)

Your plan will provide some data, but I'm afraid it will not be very meaningful.
 Do you assume that Kasparov's middle-game moves are 'perfect', say between move
30 and move 50?  Do you assume that the computer/program moves are perfect?

I guess that you will be lucky to find even a single game of thousands where the
computer selected move is identical to a human move for 20 moves in a row in the
middlegame.

--Steve



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