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Subject: Re: Grandmaster Dreev says computers are GM Strength

Author: william penn

Date: 15:20:02 05/31/01

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On May 31, 2001 at 17:14:35, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On May 31, 2001 at 16:35:04, william penn wrote:
>
>>  I Asked Grandmaster Dreev about his game against Deep Shredder on Icc
>>yesterday. I asked him point blank, if he believed that deep shredder was
>>grandmaster strength. His exact words were "there are GRANDMASTERS and
>>grandmasters, definitely it is very strong". I then said that i thought he was
>>being kind of vague, since at that moment i did not understand what he was
>>saying, so i asked him "well do you think that shredder could maintain a 2500
>>elo? He then said " YES I THINK IT WOULD GET EVEN HIGHER THEN THAT.
>
>That doesn't exactly prove or demonstrate anything. I imagine that some would
>say they're not, while others would go for the compromize and say GM strength at
>certain aspects of the game and a patzer when considering another. Furthermore,
>it's not uncommon to overestimate the strength of an opponent when you only
>managed a draw.
>
>Mogens.


 Yeah, just like some international masters and grandmasters have said that deep
blue isn't a grandmaster?, one word biased.



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