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Subject: Re: To Eduard Nemeth and Kurt Utzinger what will be the outcome if..........

Author: Joost Buijs

Date: 02:05:33 07/22/03

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On July 22, 2003 at 04:49:27, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On July 22, 2003 at 04:41:41, Joost Buijs wrote:
>
>>Probably they won't score 30%.
>>
>>If we look at the worst case, the Smirin vs computer match, the computers were
>>having a performance rating of approximately 2610. These were old engines on
>>outdated hardware.
>>
>>Nowadays the hardware is about twice as fast, add 50 ELO points.
>>The latest engines (Fritz 8, Shredder 7) are at least 55 ELO points stronger, so
>>a very conservative estimate is that the best engines on modern hardware perform
>>at least at 2715 level.
>>
>>If we look at the ELO percentage expectancy table it is easy to see that a
>>player with ~2100 ELO, like Mr. Nemeth claims to have, has a chance of scoring
>>about 3% in a match with a player of 2715.
>
>
>     Discussions about Elo are not important. I would admit: Eduard Nemeth
>     will hardly be able to draw one single game vs a 2715 Elo player but this
>     has no relation to fights vs computer programs where it is relatively easy
>     to get a draw. There is a huge difference between playing vs strong humans
>     or vs strong computer programs.
>     Kurt

Personally I don't see the difference.
But maybe thats just my stupidity.
We may need a proof of principle, i'm happy to invite you or Mr. Nemeth for a
controlled match against my dual 2800 on the playchess server.




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