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Subject: Re: Latest Fide ratings with computers

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 09:16:08 04/08/03

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On April 08, 2003 at 11:32:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 08, 2003 at 11:02:15, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>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.
>>>
>>>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.  :)
>>
>>Just your nonsense.
>>They would not reach more than 50% in most Super-GM tournaments.
>>It is easy to draw against ALL computers in tournament games.
>
>
>How do you know?
>Do you know all computers including programs that are still not commercial
>programs like Junior8?

Junior has no idea what to do if there is nothing to do.

>
>>Even for average GMs.
>>The Humans would soon figure out how to do it.
>>The tough and risky task is trying to beat them.
>
>If it is easy to draw against computers even for average GM's
>then what prevent super GM's to do it?

Bareev did it.
The GK-DJ and Kramnik-Fritz matches were show matches.
Kramnik and Kasparov could easily have won these matches with boring chess after
they took the lead in the match.

>
>Kasparov was leading 1-0 against Junior8 and against DB97.
>What prevented him to draw the rest of the games?
>
>Uri

His Ego and Money



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