Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:14:45 10/09/03
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On October 08, 2003 at 07:23:50, Mike Byrne wrote: >On October 08, 2003 at 05:40:40, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1229 >> >>Is realy programs getting stronger compared to humnan GM's? >> >>(In my view they are) >> >>Torstein > >I agree that programs are getting stronger but the comparision of SSDF to FIDE >is nonsense. Mr Elo is spinning in his grave. SSDF is an narrow pool of >silicon players , FIDE is wide range of human players. In a narrow pool pf >players, the top players(programs) gets overrated when compared to other pools. >I call this the "Bloodgood effect" after Claude Bloodgood. Claude Bloodgood was >a strong player, perhaps of master strength who became the second highest rated >player in the US by playing nobody but other inmates while incarerated for >murdering his mother. Lesson: Kill you mom, become high-rated? ;-) Also , similiar to the SSDF computers , this group of >inmates were playing hundreds of rated games per year, far more than the average >human player. > >Search "bloodgood chess rating"on google. > >http://home.adelphia.net/~dwedding/chess/bloodgood/bloodgood.html
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