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Subject: Re: positions when deep thought blundered

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:07:59 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 19:50:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 17:58:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2002 at 14:56:49, Vincent Diepeveen 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
>>>
>>>Right and like cray blitz they also blundered away material against
>>>the thing.
>>
>>
>>Please show me "the Cray Blitz blunders"....
>>
>>Cray Blitz was not exactly known to do that...  Nor did most good micro
>>programs back then including genius and the like...
>
>Rb2?? against deepthought


Which game?  Which event?  Which year?  Wouldn't surprise me if the game was
already lost at such a point, but you might not have seen it...



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