Author: Geo Disher
Date: 10:20:47 07/29/98
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On July 28, 1998 at 17:17:19, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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 Not to take away from your big game but if any Grandmaster would like to play Fritz 5.0 on a 400mhz machine please let me know. I think Fritz would give even a grandmaster a challenge in 40/20 based on what I have seen thus far. I am not sure of the best way to play these longer games over the internet. This I will have to look into. Good luck Bruce.
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