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Subject: Re: Would anyone think Crafty could get fide title at 40/120

Author: bobby palacios

Date: 06:24:29 12/18/02

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On December 18, 2002 at 05:31:25, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 18, 2002 at 04:59:21, ludicrous wrote:
>
>>Would anyone say that Crafty of today is better than Genius 3 of yesterday that
>>beat Kasparov et al?  Genius played on a slow computer, and yet managed to score
>>against Kasparov.  Would anyone think that Crafty 19.01 with Athlon can beat, if
>>not easily, Genius 3 with slow hardware?
>>
>>Then if Crafty is better, then would it be safe to say that Crafty is of GM
>>strength?
>
>I do not say that crafty is not of GM strength but you cannot decide that it is
>at GM strength only because of the fact that it is better than genius on slow
>hardware.
>
>We have no proof that genius at slow hardware is GM strength.
>
>The games of genius against kasparov were fast time control and we also cannot
>compare kasparov of 1994 with players of today and it is possible that today
>GM's play better(I do not say it and it is only one possibility)
>
>Uri

Add to the fact, that Kasparov in 1994 was playing "normal" chess not
anti-computer chess, and trying to beat the computer at its own game.



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