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Subject: Re: Elo of DeepBlue

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 04:38:14 03/15/01

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On March 15, 2001 at 06:37:27, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On March 15, 2001 at 06:31:52, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On March 15, 2001 at 04:47:29, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On March 14, 2001 at 19:46:11, Sonja Tiede wrote:
>>>
>>>2800 +/- 600
>>That absolutly makes _No_ sense whatsoever. It was Never as low
>>2200 and never as High as 3400.
>
>AFAIK, it has not played lots of games. At least, if so, they don't have been
>published. So, there is necessarily a large statistical variance. The size of
>the variance is rather independent of the results. It depends on the number of
>games which have been played. Since the number of games is small, you have a
>large uncertainty. Agreed ?
>
>Uli

No, I don't agree. One there were many games played which we will never see.
Two the stats after playing the world's best, would not swing like that.
I stand by my statement, it's logical, it's right.

Terry McCracken


>Deep Blue was close to 2700 +/- _50_ FIDE and that was about it. No great swings
>>in it's play like you suggest. Deep Blues' play was fairly balanced
>>and was about 2700 FIDE. It did of course have amazing tactical albility
>>based on search wich would _appear_ to make it look 3000+ in some situations
>>and much less in very strategic positions, which closely combined strategy
>>and tactics. Game One was a good example, and Kasparov _crushed_ it.
>>While Game Six was _worthless_ as GK mixed up his move order on move 7 while
>>in book. He for some reason thought he had played 7...Bd6, and on move 8 Black
>>plays h6.
>>
>>T.M.



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