Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:20:53 03/21/03
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On March 21, 2003 at 08:17:32, Chris Carson wrote: >On March 20, 2003 at 23:32:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 20, 2003 at 19:19:44, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On March 20, 2003 at 18:57:55, Russell Reagan wrote: >>> >>>>On March 20, 2003 at 17:07:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>It's always interesting to read your short snippets about the history of >>>>computer chess. So when are you going to do us all a favor and write a book? :) >>>> >>>>>It was named "scratchy". It had the best win/lose record of anything that ever >>>>>played on >>>>>ICC. Something like 130 wins, 1 loss or some such. >>>> >>>>Even with all of the rating addicts who no-play other computers, no computer has >>>>surpassed this mark? >>> >>>I think that it is easy to surpass that mark. >>> >>>You only need to have friends that you can always beat and set a formula to play >>>only against your friends. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >>Not if almost all the opponents are GM players. :) > >Hmm, wonder how DT would do against todays "inflated" GM's whe have better >anti-computer experience and knowledg? I'd suspect it would do the same as it did back then. The people that played it a lot already knew a lot about anti-computer play and they knew how dangerous the machine was. > Also wonder how DT would do against >players who use 1Ghz or faster comps/programs to help if they played DT today? No idea. Most of the DT games on the chess server were 2 12 type games, so using a computer to help the human would be doable... > >I am sure that DT would not be 130 points higher than anyone or thing on ICC >today. DT was ancient history and so was DB, good in their day, but that day is >past. You can see DBII at the Smithsonian here in DC. It is gone and in a >museum with all the other old relics. ;) The atomic bombs are "relics of the past" as well. But don't screw around with those relics. There's nothing else close to them, 60 years after they were created. :) Old != obsolete.
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