Author: Slater Wold
Date: 21:04:45 05/31/02
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On May 31, 2002 at 22:13:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >Rolf raised an interesting point. To him, the SSDF list is not very interesting >unless you can be sure of the connection to human strength. > >From: >http://home.interact.se/~w100107/welcome.htm > >We see that there are now: >14,378 games in the SSDF database. > >If you could convince GM's to play for $100/game with full concentration, that >would amount to $1,437,800.00 > >I suspect that GM's get 5-10x that amount (depending upon their ability). > >If we could convince them to play for $350.00 per game, it would cost about five >million dollars. $350 is not a lot of money, but with a huge number of games as >a potential, I suspect that a lot of GM's could be talked into it because it >would be a source of steady income. We could have bonus dollars for wins and a >lesser amount for losses to make sure that they were trying really hard. > >Actually, it's not as bad as I thought. I wonder if the chess program >manufacturers might want to cough up some of that cash. I can see the headlines now: "Chessbase pays 10 top GMs $5M dollars, and realizes their programs aren't very good!" Yea, that'll happen. ;) When it comes to a GM vs Computer game, I only take a handful of programs seriously. Chess Tiger, Rebel, Junior, and Crafty. Almost all other programs I have seen, aren't very good against GMs. ESPECIALLY Shredder.
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