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Subject: Re: New Chess computer

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 17:13:40 04/17/03

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On April 17, 2003 at 18:24:30, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On April 17, 2003 at 02:55:43, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2003 at 00:26:47, andrew tanner wrote:
>>
>>>On April 16, 2003 at 21:52:31, Midchael Ritter wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm getting back into playing chess after 20 years. I had a Fidelity Sensory 12
>>>>machine that worked fine. When I unpacked it it did not work.
>>>>Can anyone tell me which game to buy in the 100 to 200 dollar range. What about
>>>>the Grand Master 747k? Help in aiding me to purchase the right one the first
>>>>time would be very helpfull.
>>>>
>>>>Thank's
>>>>Mike
>>> Go to toysrus.com which takes you to amazon.com and do a search for chess. You
>>>will see the kasparov computer chessboard by saitek? for an amazingly low price
>>>of $20.0 I think it has a rating of around 2400..not bad for the price.. If you
>>>look anywhere else for this very same unit it costs upwards of $55.0 US
>>
>>
>>I have one of those Kasparov GK-2000 made by Saitek and it is NOT even close to
>>1900 Elo in Strength. You can also see how the SSDF rated itas 1896.
>>
>> 135 Kasparov GK-2000   H8 10 MHz            1896   29   -29   593   42%  1952
>> 136 Psion Atari  68000 8 MHz                1882   18   -18  1487   44%  1928
>> 137 CXG Sphinx Galaxy  6502 4 MHz           1880   17   -17  1710   37%  1974
>> 138 Novag Ruby H8  10 MHz                   1879   30   -30   545   42%  1934
>> 139 Fidelity Excel Mach IIa  68000 12 MHz   1878   46   -47   226   47%  1898
>> 140 Saitek Turboking II  6502 5 MHz         1868   23   -23   963   37%  1964
>
>I always thought GK 2000 was rated near 1900 ,,as it is by SSDF -- 1896 is near
>1900 right? or are you saying SSDF 1896 is not near 1900 ?  I think it is near
>1900 USCF -- but that may be near 1800 FIDE -- not really sure -- my take was
>that USCF was near 100 points higher than FIDE, but I haven't looked in a while.

1900 ssdf is supposed to be equivalent to 2000 fide.

in the beginning the ssdf was supposed to be equivalent to Fide for the weak
programs but the ssdf reduced the rating of all the program by 100 elo.

Uri



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