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Subject: Re: IM Kaufman States on Web Comp Report Progs are GM at 40/2 time control!!

Author: odell hall

Date: 15:24:40 11/04/98

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On November 04, 1998 at 18:17:18, Reynolds Takata wrote:

>Kaufman speaks the truth finally some sanity appears in the group!! (I of course
>would leave out Hiarcs 6, and Genius 5)
>
>
>"The last time I checked, the indicated adjustment to convert to USCF
>ratings was 180, which would give it a predicted USCF rating of 2696. Even a
>tiny gain would bring the new version over
>2700, the same level as the top four or five American grandmasters. This is at
>standard tournament speed (40/2); at fast
>chess the programs are stronger still. Although I suspect that the method used
>to get the Swedish ratings tends to exaggerate
>the ratings of the top programs a bit for several reasons,
>
>I do believe that MChess Pro 8.0 would be able to earn the
>Grandmaster title if given a reasonable number of opportunities to play in GM
>norm tournaments.
>



Genius 5 is difinitely included in My GM List for computer programs, I would
tend to excluse Mchess from this List!!!>
>In fact, an earlier version
>(5.0) defeated three Grandmasters in a single six round event (Aegon) at
>standard time controls. At fast chess, it is a terror;" (Kaufman Nov, 1998)



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