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Subject: Re: Chess Challenger takes on CM9 SKR (Game/1 Hour)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:04:14 06/11/03

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On June 11, 2003 at 05:53:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 10, 2003 at 20:17:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 09, 2003 at 09:02:59, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On June 09, 2003 at 08:46:14, Chuck wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 08, 2003 at 06:15:05, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 08, 2003 at 03:43:42, ludicrous wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>A little one sided match.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I also hand play my Saitek Kasparov (USCF 2334) vs Fritz, Junior, Rebel etc on
>>>>>>my P4 2.4 Ghz and maybe in 100 games Saitek will not win (100-0 zip).
>>>>>
>>>>>Does Saitek Kasparov play in human tournament and if not how did you calculate
>>>>>the 2334 number?
>>>>>
>>>>>Here is the ssdf list for programs with name that include at least one of the
>>>>>words saitek or kasparov.
>>>>>Note that the only program with the words saitek and kasparov has ssdf rating of
>>>>>1635
>>>>>
>>>>>134 Kasparov SPARC  20 MHz                  2124
>>>>>143 Saitek RISC 2500 ARM2 14 MHz 128K       2089
>>>>>175 Kasparov Brute Force  H8 10 MHz         1918
>>>>>181 Kasparov President/GK-2100 H8 10 MHz    1878
>>>>>193 Saitek Leonardo Maestro B 6502 18 MHz   1828
>>>>>196 Saitek Maestro D  6502 10 MHz           1816
>>>>>201 Kasparov GK-2000   H8 10 MHz            1797
>>>>>208 Saitek Turboking II  6502 5 MHz         1768
>>>>>216 Saitek Stratos/Analys B  6502 6 MHz     1720
>>>>>219 Saitek Leonardo Maestro A  6502 6 MHz   1711
>>>>>222 Saitek Simultano/Corona C  6502 5 MHz   1706
>>>>>228 Saitek Turbostar 432  6502 4 MHz        1665
>>>>>230 Saitek Kasparov Blitz                   1635
>>>>>239 Saitek Superstar 36K  6502 2 MHz        1579
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>First of all ludicrous quoted a USCF rating number, so I cannot begin to fathom
>>>>why you searched the SSDF list to find a match(!?).
>>>
>>>because the ssdf rating for the weak programs is based also on games against
>>>humans.
>>>
>>>I know that computers for a long time are not allowed to play against humans
>>>for USCF rating.
>>
>>I am not sure what you mean by that statement.
>
>
>I remember that cray blitz was not allowed to play after it won but I understand
>now from your post that it is not a general decision.
>
>Uri

That was an issue with _that_ particular event.  IE we won the 1981 Mississippi
Closed Chess Championship and that caused a lot of flak.

But it wasn't a USCF issue since every tournament could choose to allow or
exclude computers as they wanted...





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