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Subject: Re: Comps are GM Level to most people.

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 16:17:44 01/14/01

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On January 14, 2001 at 17:39:30, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>I tend to agree that computers are achieving GM strength in that if it walks
>like a duck and quacks like a duck, well then it must be a duck! The van der
>Wiel-Rebel match is one example of this. And what of Kasparov Deep Blue II? A
>crushing defeat of perhaps the strongest human player on the planet.
>
>Have no computer programs played in enough human-machine tournaments at slower
>time controls (not Blitz!) to achieve an official and not provisional rating at
>GM level? Or have they not been allowed to? If under tournament conditions a
>computer program performs at GM level I think it should be given its due. Quack!

Okey Ralph, I think you've got a point with that duck thing.
If Tiger comes looking for you, you better duck quick, else
you be shredded to pieces. No prayers to some Franz guru in
Germany would help you out in that situation! Or maybe it's
better to keep still and not move at all...:)

Sune



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