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Subject: Re: beyond 3000+

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:29:56 10/06/03

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On October 06, 2003 at 02:24:39, Peter Hegger wrote:

>On October 06, 2003 at 01:26:31, swaminathan natarajan wrote:
>
>>in future can player or computer go beyond 3000+ rating?
>>is it possible to achieve it?
>>i heard from chessbase that most of the players had gone beyond 3000+ in a
>>single tournament(team chess)
>
>Hello,
>It will be difficult for a human to go over 3000 FIDE. Though humans have had
>TPR's of over 3000 in individual tournaments, it is exceedingly difficult to do
>it on a consistent enough basis to get an actual 3000+ FIDE rating. Humans, even
>ones like Fischer, Kasparov or Kramnik have never been within 149 points of 3000
>FIDE. It will take someone much better than them to get that last 149. I don't
>see that happening for a long, long time.
>Computer on the other hand, can always be improved. I think they will get to
>3000 in the next 5-10 years and definetely before any human does.


I could envision a chess player that is as strong at chess as Marion Tinsley
was at checkers.  If a player only loses a couple of games over a 20 year
period, he's going to most likely have a 3000+ rating, again assuming that
he matches Tinsley's overall performance and not drawing _every_ game.



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