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Subject: Re: Humans are far superior than computers...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:38:45 07/16/02

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On July 16, 2002 at 18:50:26, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On July 16, 2002 at 16:08:01, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2002 at 08:10:10, Omid David wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I strongly believe that all chess programs are dump, not being able to see some
>>>of the obvious positional elements in a position. If a chess program like Junior
>>>or Fritz loses 5 games in 100 to me (2250 Elo), it means that computers are by
>>>no means superior to humans. (I certainly won't be able to beat a 2700 Elo Human
>>>5 times in 100 matches!)
>>>
>>
>>A 2700 Elo player is 450 rating points better and so should beat you about 10 to
>>1.
>>
>>If you score only 5% against a program, then its rating is higher than 2700.
>>
>>Amir
>
>First my gratulations for the title!

I will also ad my congratulation for the title.
I always prefer to see a program from Israel takes the title.

>
>Then to your statement. It's by no means reasonable. Perhaps the human
>chessplayer has difficulties with memorizing openings while you have the big
>databases form GM chess.
>
>In general you should always be aware of that chess strength is a matter of the
>games and not simple arithmetics. For me it's very troubling that you speak of
>more than 2700 Elo as if that could be possible for your program or any other.

1)Amir did not say that the program's rating is above 2700 but only that if 2250
player can score 5% against it then it is higher than 2700(the first assumption
does not seem to be correct).

2)If you consider only games then old version of Deep Junior already had >2700
performance against 9 GM's.

I believe that GM's can do better(and the win of smirin against programs 5-3 at
faster than tournament time control suggest that they can do better) but the
2700 is not based only on fantasy.

Uri



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