Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 04:57:57 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 07:26:15, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 30, 2001 at 02:57:16, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On April 30, 2001 at 02:22:20, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>... all top programs with 8 CPUs can play with around ELO 2700 and give good >>>fight against Kramnik. In any case it will be very interesting match. >>> >>>Jouni >> >>Very well spoken except that I do no agree that the top programs have ELO 2700. >>Kurt > >Do you think that they have less than it or more than it? > >If kramnik does not insist not to get the program then it is clear that he >believes that chess programs have at least ELO 2700 otherwise he could get more >respect from winning the match at fair conditions without getting the program. > >The only reason for kramnik to agree to accept the program before the match is >if he believes that the program has good chances to win in fair conditions and I >do not believe in it if he believes that the rating of the program is less than >2700. > >Uri Well, what should I say without conjuring up a storm of other meanings. In my life I have already played about 450 games [no blitz, rapid 60', 40/40' or 40/120'] without using any anticomputer strategy and even nowadays I (only ELO 1993) get about 30-35 % percent against the fast monsters. So it is always hard to see and to believe for me that grandmasters seem to have difficulty in beatening the top programs. There is only one explanation: the top players are using a too sharp style and of course they always want to win and for that purpose are willing to risk too much. My experience show that this leads in most cases to the contrary. By the way, see my shortly commented game in the CCC against Gambit_Tiger2. Above all I would estimate that the best programs have an ELO rating of not more than 2500. Kurt
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