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Subject: Re: Latest Fide ratings with computers

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:48:56 04/08/03

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On April 08, 2003 at 09:48:21, Chris Carson wrote:

>On April 08, 2003 at 09:12:05, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I included Carson's ratings to latest Fide with interesting result :-)
>>
>>1   DEEP BLUE 97....................  2862
>>2   DEEP JUNIOR X...................  2847
>>3   Kasparov, Gary..................  2830
>>4   DEEP FRITZ 8....................  2807
>>5   Kramnik, Vladimir...............  2789
>>6   Anand, Viswanathan..............  2764
>>7   Leko, Peter.....................  2746
>>8   Shirov, Alexei..................  2735
>>9   Topalov, Veselin................  2735
>>10  Bareev, Evgeny..................  2734
>>
>>Please no comments about different rating pools - all ratings are FIDE and
>>from same pool!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Nice observation and may generate some discussion.  Enjoy the posts.  :)
>
>Some observations:
>
>Arguments against the comp ratings.
>1.  The comps do not have enough games to establish a rating.
>2.  The comps listed only played against one opponent under match conditions.
>
>Arguments that favor the comps.
>3.  In tournament conditions (human v human and human v comp) the comps score
>    about 100 points higher since the human does not prepare just for the comp.
>4.  The comps in this list only played the top 2 GM's, against lower rated GM's
>    (match or tournament) the comp ratings would increase.

That suggests that the Elo formula doesn't work.  Can you explain why you
feel that way???

IE if I can get a _higher_ rating by playing lower-rated opponents, than I can
get by playing
higher-rated opponents, the Elo system is basically flawed.  I don't believe it
is, myself.

>
>In my opinion, the above ratings for the comps reflect the performance to be
>expected for match play when the Top Human GM has months to prepare and plan for
>the comps (DF and DJ anyway, not DB).  The true ratings for the comps would be
>at least 100 to 200 points higher if they could play in FIDE tournaments.
>
>There will be a few FIDE FM's, IM's and GM's that will play well against the
>comps, however, these games will be few and most FM's, IM's and GM's will get
>clobbered by the comps in a tournament environment when the comps are on 2Ghz
>and faster machines (fastest duals and singles procs with Rebel, Fritz, Junior,
>Shredder, Hiarcs, Chess Tiger, Gandalf and ChessMaster) would take the top 8
>places in most GM tournaments.  Perhaps Ruffian and others could be added to the
>list.
>
>Just my take.  :)



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