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Subject: Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 21:56:15 03/19/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 19:56:39, enrico carrisco wrote:

>During GM Gulko's post-game analysis of his match with HIARCS 8, a watcher asked
>Gulko to rate the strength of HIARCS 8 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being
>Kasparov strength.  Gulko gave the rating of 6.

Pretty meaningless because we only have one end of the scale.  Sure, 10 is
Kasparov, but what is 1??  Is it the patzer at the local chess club?  Is it a
random move generator?  Is it 2000, 2500, Karpov, Crafty, ... you take your
pick.

>
>An odd comparison to say the least, but if anyone can contrast "strength" with
>Kasparov, it would be Gulko. ;)
>
>-elc.



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