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Subject: Re: How strong would the top programs be on a 486 100mhz processor?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 10:23:08 07/31/01

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On July 31, 2001 at 12:56:38, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 31, 2001 at 07:25:49, odell hall wrote:
>
>> I remember a long time ago the computer chess reports magazine was saying
>>genius 3 on a 486 was 2500 uscf, i wonder how accurate this was?, i think i
>>might have been around 2300 uscf, based on some masters that i have asked who
>>played it.
>
>I think that it is accurate.
>I remember that Genius3 got performance of more than 2600 in one human-computer
>tournament.
>
>The time control was not exactly tournment time control but was close to
>tournament time control(90 minutes for 40 moves +15 second per move if I
>remember correctly).
>
>Genius3(p90) also beated kasparov at 25 minutes per game 1.5-.5 and got
>performance of almost 2800 at that time control(it beated nikolich 2-0 and lost
>2-0 against anand).
>
>Genius3(486) at 2 hours/40 moves is better than Genius3(P90) at 25 minutes per
>move so I believe that Genius3(486) 2 hours/40 moves is at least at the same
>level of kasparov (25 minutes per game)
>
>I believe that Kasparov at 25 minutes per game plays at the level that 2500 USCF
>players play at 120 minutes/40 moves.
>
>Uri

Didn't he beat the Isreali Olympic team (average rating over 2600) 7-1 in a
simul? Looks a little better than 2500 to me.

                                       Albert



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