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Subject: Re: who will be the 1st program to hit the 2800-2900 rating barrier?anyone?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:56:45 01/16/03

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On January 16, 2003 at 16:47:53, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 16, 2003 at 16:16:02, david wight wrote:
>
>>please help with your thoughts.
>
>I, Dann Corbit, as a human player, am at 2900.  Of course, that puts Kasparov at
>2900+1900, = 4800 (roughly speaking).
>
>The numbers are arbitrary and have no meaning in absolute value.  The only
>purpose of ELO is to demonstrate strength levels via DIFFERENCES.
>
>HTH

So you DO admit that there are playing strength levels in chess, just that it
can't be gaged exactly. One year 2800 might be a certain level of game, and the
next year it might take about 3500 to play the same game!
S.Taylor



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