Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 16:06:00 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 10:48:20, Chris Carson wrote: >The SSDF is a valid and reliable measure of program strength on the >hardware measured for tournament play against humans and other >programs. > >The top programs have proven to perform above 2500 (2500 is the minimum >for GM strength). Some of the programs have performances above 2600 >and DJ6 has a 2702 performance against the top GM's (finished 50% >score). Hi Chris, Are you sure SSDF claims SSDF-ratings are exactly comparable with Elo-ratings? As long as you have no humans in the rating pool, you cannot decide on the starting (Elo)point for determining the rating - as you want to compare with humans, after all. More decisive I think are indeed the results of chess programs participating in tournaments and competition until now, scoring *very well* between solid IM's *and* IGM's. Maybe - just maybe- if all chess players would become more accustomed to computer participants in their tournaments, results could go down, because of the diminishing "surprise" factor- so to say. BTW as human GM's are drawed by weaker players now and then, I think the same goes for computer programs. I didn't mean to react on this discussion with the gandalf game I posted somewhere else on this board - I hadn't read this thread - but as you can see even a weakie like me has some luck, sometimes. Sometimes. Not often :)) There's much discussion about the desirability of computers in human tournaments, and there are a lot of arguments pro and con, but I'm very interested in regular participation to really validate the results until now. I also think we might learn a lot from these games, "programming-wise". J.
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