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Subject: Re: Computers vs. Humans - meaningless?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:19:57 03/26/02

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On March 26, 2002 at 02:12:08, Tanya Deborah wrote:

>On March 25, 2002 at 18:02:20, Joshua Lee wrote:
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>>You make a good point, Nigel short for instance was well over 100elo less than
>>Kasparov, yet he was able to make it to a match and win one game on top of
>>drawing quite a few. Kasparov won ofcourse but the point is that The best
>>players lose, and even though you are 100 point underdog, you can win.
>>I wouldn't count Kramnik out against Deep Fritz just yet as Kramnik is alot
>>Stronger and i have yet to see him lose to Gulko. If someone can find one game
>>do share. Also GM's , IM's and Master's Get smacked around all the time by
>>Crafty yet I doubt Hyatt would say that his Program even on the fastest machines
>>out there plays 100% over 2500. That really is the argument if Van Wely lost two
>>games then therefore Rebel is as Strong. Rebel Lost two games as well and in
>>both Losses Rebel Did NOT play 2500 Level chess, if so it wouldn't have lost.
>>Weeks prior people said Van Wely Sucks because he lost to some 2500elo GM well
>>last time i checked a GM only Beat's IM's 3 out of 5 Games so obviously the GM
>>Knows Something that his opponent doesn't. Since the IM would win those 2 games
>>does that mean he is as strong as the GM? The ratings might also have serious
>>flaws , when Kramnik has a 2800+ elo and Fischer in 1972 was 2780 (he dropped 5
>>after the WC) do you really think that Kramnik is Stronger than Fischer at his
>>peak? So on the same note 2697elo Van wely might only be 2500 who knows??
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>>Blitz games are great at showing how strong a computer is tactically but 40/2 is
>>a better time control, other than that What if any of these GM's took on any top
>>program in a correspondence game? IM Mike Valvo took on Deep Thought and won
>>both his games even though Deep Thought was looking at more positions than
>>Deep Blue did in 40/2 against Kasparov!
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>I do not think that Deep Thought was looking more positions per second than Deep
>Blue did in 1997 against Kasparov. Deep Blue can see 200.000.000 positions in a
>second, and i think that Deep Thought only can see 2.000.000 positions per
>second.  There was a huge difference!! :-)
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>Tanya.
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The claim was more positions and not more positions per second.

If Deep thought used more than 5 hours per move in that
correspondence game then it clearly could look
at more positions per move than
deep blue at 3 minutes per move against kasparov.

Uri



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