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Subject: Re: New ssdf rating 07/07 - Shredder breaks 2800 mark!!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:00:26 07/08/03

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On July 08, 2003 at 22:20:05, DANIEL JOHNSON wrote:

>Hi, I thought everone would like to know shredder 7.04 first program to break
>2800. Shredder has a rating of 2810 and fritz 8 distant 3rd place at 2762.
>Can't wait till the world computer chess championship this Nov.? perhaps
>shredder 8 not to far down the road.

Stefan Meyer-Kahlen is to be largely congratulated for an excellent showing in
the SSDF.  Now he not only pounds the stuffings out of folks at the world
championships, but also on the SSDF list.

The number 2800 is pretty much arbitrary.  We can add 500 and Shredder has
broken the 3300 mark.  As long as we add 500 to all the other programs, the
result will remain consistent.

This highly respected list:
http://www.chessmetrics.com/FE/Graphs150.htm
has Capablanca and Fischer at around 3000 ELO.  Of course, it's just  a number.
The real meanings of chess ratings are not so much in the absolute values but in
the absolute differences as used to predict a broad scope of outcomes between
some given player and a collection of opponents in the list.



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