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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:12:09 06/25/01

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On June 25, 2001 at 03:32:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 25, 2001 at 00:52:23, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 2001 at 15:15:21, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On June 24, 2001 at 14:27:12, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 24, 2001 at 03:25:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 24, 2001 at 00:33:34, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On June 22, 2001 at 10:58:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On June 22, 2001 at 09:36:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>chessbase could get good PR out of this by focussing on the fact that
>>>>>>>>deepfritz will search way deeper as deep blue did!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Not a single chance in hell this would happen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>yes,  you are, as always, 100% correct.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I really do not understand how people can think a chess program which can play
>>>>>>about 2200 in close positions and 2600 in open positions (extimated ratings)
>>>>>>against one of the strongest player of the World can have any chance expecially
>>>>>>since the human player will know exactly what the opponent will play. This would
>>>>>>bring down the strenght of the program of at least another 200 points!
>>>>>
>>>>>Fritz is better than 2600 in open positions and 2200 in closed position.
>>>>>
>>>>>2900 in open positions and 2500 in closed position seems to be more realistic.
>>>>
>>>>No if talking about human Elo. I do not believe it.
>>>>>
>>>>>A computer with rating of 2600 in open positions and 2200 in closed position
>>>>>could not get performance of more than 2400 against humans even if the humans do
>>>>>no special preperation and old Fritz got prerformance of more than 2400 in the
>>>>>israeli league on hardware that is clearly slower than the hardware against
>>>>>kramnik even after part of the humans did special preperation.
>>>>
>>>>Ok, but the computers are very good against chess players up to 2500 Elo, so
>>>>this may give the impression they play about 2600 as an average.
>>>>Against stronger opponents (2650 and above) they would score less.
>>>
>>>The opposite
>>>Against strong humans they score more points
>>>The best performance of computers against humans was not against weak 2400
>>>players but against players with average rating of 2702.
>>
>>At blitz and fast games not at slow games.
>
>No
>I am talking about the best performance at tournament time control(if you do not
>include deeper blue)
>
>Deep Junior got this best performance of 2702 at 2 hours/40 moves games in
>dortmund.
>
>Uri


So? Cray Blitz was the first computer to win an "open section tournament", back
in 1981.  Yet it should have lost to a 1700 player in that event, as he had it
down to -3 at one point, but a single mistake let the machine escape with a
win.

Computers can put up a "better than real life" result from time to time.  It
doesn't mean they are super-GM players however.  After the 1981 event, people
started taking CB (and computers in general) more seriously and things got much
more difficult after that.



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