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Subject: Re: positions when deep thought blundered

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:26:43 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 17:57:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 14:49:00, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2002 at 13:33:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On August 21, 2002 at 07:49:10, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 20, 2002 at 20:27:18, martin fierz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>In these days all programs were so bad that games were decided by
>>>>who didn't give away most pieces *usually*.
>>>>
>>>>So in that respect all games from then are biased as the level of
>>>>*every* participant was 600 points lower than they are now.
>>>
>>>That's wrong.  We had >2200 programs back then.  Belle was > 2200 in 1983.
>>>In 1984 Cray Blitz was 2250 officially. Hitech was almost 2500 officially.
>>>Deep Thought was >2600 officially.  All of those "official" ratings were earned
>>>by playing only humans, comp vs comp was never rated officially by any
>>>organization we dealt with...
>>
>>Fritz3(p90) had also IM norm against humans but if you
>>look at it's ssdf rating you can see more than 400
>>elo difference relative to the top programs.
>>
>>If you remember that A1200 that is used by the ssdf is not
>>the best hardware you can say that Fritz3(p90) is almost 600 elo weaker than
>>the top programs of today in comp-comp games.
>>
>>Fritz3(p90) played in 1995.
>>
>>Most Programs that played against deep thought played
>>when p90 was not available.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>The discussion was about deep thought/deep blue.  It was not horribly better
>than _all_ its electronic opponents.  Against the micros, yes it was pretty
>hopeless.  But there were lots of opponents they played that were not on
>micros.  Myself.  Hitech.  Lachex.  Waycool.  *socrates.  You name it...

What was the result of these players against the top micros?

Uri



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