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

Author: Omid David

Date: 09:00:29 07/17/02

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On July 16, 2002 at 17:26:28, Uri Blass 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
>
>Is there a statistics about games of 2700 players against 2250 players?
>
>Note that it is possible to score 10 points out of 100 without winning a single
>game and Omid David did not say that he can score only 5% against chess programs
>but that he can win 5 games out of 100.
>
>Uri

Yes, I usually score way above 10% that including many draws. My *winning* rate
is about 5% (when I manage to close the center in openings like English or
King's Indian, and start a pawn storm).

Omid.



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