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Subject: Re: Is it safe to say then that Computers today play 2800 level chess?

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 01:56:59 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 04:36:20, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 03:06:02, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On November 27, 2003 at 02:59:36, Gerald Wright wrote:
>>
>>>The Top players in the computer chess championship are all capable of drawing or
>>>winning a match vs Kasparov or them in the top 10.
>>
>>     As long as 2200 ELO players can get a lot of draws
>>     with safe and boring playing style the best comp
>>     programs do not have more than 2400 Elo.
>>     Kurt
>What you are saying Kurt does not make sense at all.A 2400 elo player could
>not draw Kasaprov under any circumstances.Please check the definition of ELO.
>Also your claim of 2200 Elo players getting draws is Contrary to my own private
>testing of many many games against 2200 Elo players.

 I also think he is wrong about the 2400 ELO, but did the players you saw,
played with the safe and boring style Kurt suggested? I think if they were, then
the games will have many draws.
 Kurt recently wrote some rules, about how humans must play against computers. I
think if all GM's followed that rules, then computers would have more problems.
 The ELO of the computers is a very complicated subject and here is a very
good artivle about:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1146





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