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Subject: Re: How many think Century wil win the Match?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 01:15:14 02/17/02

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On February 16, 2002 at 04:20:27, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>On February 16, 2002 at 00:44:44, Jose Menendez wrote:
>
>>Besides myself does anyone think Century will win?
>>I am not the strongest Chess player in the World but my impression of century 4
>>on my 1 gig machine is that it plays about 2650 Chess.
>
>It seems your prediction was pretty close.
>
>Have a look to the following message at the sixth place of the list:
>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?213734
>
>I believe it is stronger
>>then both fritz and tiger vs humans, also century is much less known then fritz,
>>it is unlikely that many of the top players has any real experience playing it.
>>I perdect 2 and half to 1 and a half in favor of Century4.
>
>I also bet on Century4.
>
>I wonder if a Win for
>>Century will convince the die hard skeptics that Computers are now Grandmasters,
>>or will a program have to beat the world champion in a match to even be
>>considered 2500? With all the recent accomplishments against humans being
>>ignored , i bet this will be a requirment.
>
>We will have to wait for Kramnik vs. Fritz Match to reach conclusions ?
>
>w.b.r.
>Otello
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Even if Century 4 wins, it still won't prove that it is a Grandmaster strength
player as it takes hundreds of games! But it will sure be fun to play over the
games to see what areas of improvement there are.

Regards,
      Terry



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