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Subject: Re: hard to believe that not everyone thinks comps. IM strength at 2/40 ????

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:53:46 01/13/01

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On January 13, 2001 at 23:51:35, ERIQ wrote:

>Think about it what is the average rating of IM's, and have comps. not exceeded
>that !! It's simple math people. Let's say you have a 1000mhz tbird 256mb 133ram
>Use any of the top 5 programs against any IM, six game match. I would surely
>put my money on the comps. In fact an old friend of mine played just genius all
>the time and lost most of the time, yes he won some but the match was not even
>and that was on just a pII300 64mb ram. and oh yes he was an IM !! I used to
>take lessons from him. He was one of the best positional players I have ever
>seen. I have played several IM's and I feel he was strong among them.
>
>   final thought : comps strength on fast hardware IM if not more.

Let him play the same program 100 times.  If he still loses a 6 game match after
that, it will be far more surprising than losing one 6 game match.



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