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Subject: Re: What is:Kramnik really saying about Fritz's strength? - GM level??

Author: Alois Ganter

Date: 05:31:22 06/22/01

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On June 22, 2001 at 06:26:32, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 22, 2001 at 03:26:58, Alois Ganter wrote:
>
>>Presumably he is talking to his second GM Miguel Illescas who was on the Deep
>>Blue team and who knows and understands more about the playing strength of the
>>Deep Blue myth than any self-appointed expert here.
>>
>>Yes, it is the same Illescas that lost 0:2 against Deep Junior at g/60 in the
>>Kasparov.com Grand Prix. No, Deep Junior didn't play GM level in those games. He
>>only calculated more deeply.
>
>I do not understand
>
>You can always say it about computers so I suspect that by your definition
>computers will never play GM level.
>
>Even if programs solve chess they do not play better than GM's but only
>calculate more deeply.
>
>Uri

Let me rephrase it: Of course computers do not play GM level. They are only
tactically better than humans and that distorts the Elo calculations :)




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