Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:13:00 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 14:32:21, Chris Carson wrote: >I am curious what this forum thinks with regards to the following: > >1. How strong is strong enough for Computer Chess? 3000 ELO, 3200 ELO, >stronger? an elo rating is relative to another elorating. It is not an absolute number. >2. Do we really need more speed (faster HW, no doubt this makes program x >stronger) or is sw improvements (on a 3Ghz machine) enough to make most people >here happy? Which do you want to pay for HW, SW or both? When hardware gets faster that allows smarter algorithms and bigger evaluation functions. >For me, 400 ELO above the strongest GM would be plenty. HW vs SW makes no >difference to me, I will buy SW and HW upgrades for a while to come, but the HW >upgrades are harder and harder for me to justify, the SW is easier for me to >swollow. :) I hope you realize that some years ago, highest rated GM was Fischer with 2785 or something (hehe kill me if i have it more than 5 points incorrect). No GM was 2700+ then with exception of Karpov perhaps. Kasparov is like 2880 level now, so is Kramnik. Many GMs are 2700+ now and that's *not* inflation. They really are worth their rating! There will be more 2800+ players in the future. Best regards, Vincent
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