Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:17:19 07/28/98
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On July 28, 1998 at 16:38:29, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Bruce: >It is 20:40 here and I have Ivan at mny side. He does not know much of Ferret >and he would want to know how strong is. Do you have an aproximate Elo rating? >Maybe Ivan would like to play firts a 25 minutes or so game to get some feeling >about what he is going to play at 40/2. Please let me know if you could do this >at aroiund 22:00 my time, I don't know yours. >Any case what is important is that Ivan will do it, provided he thinks Ferret is >enough strong to deserve his time. It beat GM Boris Gulko 2-0 at game/30. It beat GM Roman Dzindzi... 1.5-0.5 at game/30 It lost to GM Alexi Shirov 0-2 at game/30 It drew WGM Angelina Belovskay 1-1 at game/30 It scored 2.5 out of 4.0 in a 30 0 computers vs GM tournament on FICS, losing to Kaidanov, drawing with Roman, and beating two other guys, I don't remember who. Maybe I'm wrong about some of the above, but it is close. These were on a Pentium 133. It beat IM Thomas Engqvist 2-0 at game/30 It lost to an IM at Aegon '97 in a slow game at Fischer time control. These were on a Pentium Pro 200. Its current machine is 1.8 times faster than the Pentium Pro 200 and approximately 4.5 times faster than the Pentium 133. It has a winning record against every GM that I know who it's played more than ten blitz games with, in most cases I would expect it to score 75% or better against typical GM's with five minutes plus small increment (2 or 3 or 5, maybe). A typical case is GM Gadi Rechlis, whose blitz score vs Ferret is +35 -215 =26, which is 18%, not to pick on him. On ICC it has achieved the highest established blitz rating ever attributed to any entity other Gary Kasparov (or so we assume that is who that is), and Kasparov's is barely established. Alexi Shirov told me my program was "too much" for him at blitz and asked me for a copy, which is I think what I am most proud of. Computer titles: Amateur microcomputer champion (tournament time control), 1995. World microcomputer speed chess champion 1996. World microcomputer speed chess champion 1997 (current). It has never lost a game to a computer at blitz time controls in a "live" tournament, its record is currently approximately +23 -0 =2. bruce
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