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outdated hardware.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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