Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:47:48 09/03/00
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On September 02, 2000 at 01:53:28, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 01, 2000 at 23:45:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 31, 2000 at 14:58:03, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>>On August 31, 2000 at 09:21:57, EARL R. FULLER wrote: >>> >>>>Hi everyone, i'm just kind ok curious, just how strong is the Shredder 4 progam >>>>in USCF rating ? And, for the second question, (lol) where would you rank this >>>>program compared to say, (Fritz, which i don't own) running on an AMD k6/500 >>>>with 128 megs of sdram ? Or, where is the progam ranked, today, period ? >>>>I own a collection of the old Fidelity chess computers dating way back, yes, >>>>they all work, and work well i might add. Still can't beat them. lololol >>>>If you own an old Fidelity and it doesn't play well, try opening up the case, >>>>lift the chip's out of the socket, and reset it. It may be just the connection, >>>>and may help. It has worked for me. >>>>Anyway, with Shredder4, how good is this progam, in USCF ? >>> >>> >>>>Thanks >>> >>> >>>At least 2700 USCF and that would mean that Shredder on such a machine would >>>beat the Fidelity machines 100% of the time. Fidelity 0 - Shredder 4+ 100000000 >>> >>>Is that good enough for you? >>> >>> >>>Tim Frohlick >> >> >>That is way too big an advantage. Fidelity had 2300+ rating machine. I have >>one in my office in fact. This machine would expect to win around 1 of every >>16 games vs a 2700 opponent. > >100% score is possible if the opponent does not have a learning function. >I do not know if Fidelity has a learning function. > >It is impossible to know the score by the rating because the rating is based on >games against many opponents and it is possible that Fidelity has problems >against one opponent. > >The only way to know is by games. > >Uri I think 100% would be hard, even without learning. My old fidelity has a reasonable book, and it is going to vary enough that it won't repeat the same game quickly enough to not have winning changes somewhere along the way...
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