Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:36:04 12/17/00
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Hi Cristophe: Maybe what makes difficult for someone to believe -but I believe it - that current crop is around 800 points stronger than old crop is how much "great" the figure 800 seems to be, as an absolute quantity, not taking into account that is an statistically produced figure. But people forgets thaty in "absolute" terms of chess capabilities it is enough that a program be just better to produce sistematic wins that, at last, translate in enormous score difference. A simple example for unbelievers: if in my teens I had runned several 100 meters races with the world champ of that far age, my current absolute difference in speed with him was maybe "just" a couple of despicable seconds, but that had been enough for me to lose every race. So his "elo" would had been 1000 points or more better than mine. I have tested that precisely with sargon III, as you may remember, some time ago. I too believed, in that time, that there was not great difference. In fact, if you just see how Sargon handle well a lot of things, you just think progress has been discrete, but then it if you continue looking what happens, you realize that is enough he does not so well in endings or so to lose every game with any top current program. And that is equal to maybe that awful 800 points. Fernando
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