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Subject: Re: If programs are only IM strength, why bother to play Kramnik??

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 14:18:13 05/13/01

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On May 13, 2001 at 17:08:55, Joshua Lee wrote:

>500 games is not an arbitrary number, this is the number of Games at a minimum
>on the SSDF list where the ratings were steady +- 30 instead of +- 50 or 60 so
>there goes one of your assumptions the other I know you are not a part of SSDF,
>That's number two and as far as your example goes those GM's have most likely
>played more than 500 Games so 1 tournament proves nothing ask around i am sure
>the people in here will agree that you can't tell much by just 1 tournament.
>But you can believe what you want. Like i said Junior is too High there is no
>way for example that it can be so close in rating to 9x faster hardware if you
>believe that i would worry think about it it is like saying junior on a 286 is
>100pts below junior on 450Mhz????????????????????? Hello. Like i said before it
>is only 1 tournament but still you can tell the ssdf results are wrong just by
>puting this to mind , junior has played withing the ssdf rating pool which
>includes some games against humans still with a decent margin of error and has
>recieved a rating of 2523 which is almost 100pts too high still on 450 which is
>9 times slower than an 8 way 700Mhz machine which is trippling the speed twice
>or 90 x 2 180 like before how much memory did deep junior use this does make a
>difference. I believe SSDF is wrong and i am sure most people can do the
>research and find out the same if they don't believe me. FYI the examples from
>tony's page were not used in the ssdf's rating pool so only 183 games are being
>used but you would be right about one thing if they used those games they would
>have the so called arbitrary number (500 games)i mentioned but ofcourse you
>didn't say that.

I stand by my previous posts.  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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