Author: Reynolds Takata
Date: 02:32:26 11/11/98
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On November 10, 1998 at 17 >> I didn't say anything about denying that he was close in strength. Nor did i >>imply for or against the proposition that deep blue is close in strength to >>Kasparov. What i said was that it is ridiculous for people to claim that deep >>blue is the superior player over Kasparov based upon only six games(especially >>those games). A claim that has been made far, far too many times. > >I don't think that claim has been made by many... I have seen what i consider many, you may have seen the same number and thought that it wasn't many. I do think that many have >said that "clearly DB is not grossly inferior" and the match result certainly >shows that... I think this reitterates the above statement to a degree. I simply said i wasn't implying for or against the proposition that deep blue is close in strength to Kasparov. IE I don't think you can be grossly inferior to someone and >win a match of 6 games... No one here at least not me mentioned anything about "grossly". The likelyhood of someone winning a match of 6 games who is grossly inferior to his opponent is indeed not probable. However at the rarified heights of Super GM ELO, i don't find it necessarily grossly improbable for a player rated 2700 to beat a player 2815 in a 6 game match, yet that is a 100 rating points.
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