Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:06:12 11/27/03

Go up one level in this thread


On November 27, 2003 at 10:29:24, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 10:19:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 27, 2003 at 08:43:25, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>
>>>On November 27, 2003 at 03:03:07, Uri Blass 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.
>>>>
>>>>It is very safe to say that computer today play 2800 level chess because people
>>>>will never prove you wrong because they are not going to play enough games.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>What? Regardless with what you have said Uli, it certainly _isn't_ safe to say
>>>computers play at the 2800 level, and if companies say it is they can be
>>>challenged on making dubious claims.
>>>
>>>I call it False Advertising.
>>
>>I do not think that a court will do something against somebody who claims that
>>computers play at 2800 level so I think that it is safe.
>>
>>There is no proof that the claim is dubious.
>>
>>I know that computers may play some positions as worse than 2000 but it does not
>>prove that they do not play at 2800 level because in a game they get different
>>positions.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Fidelity was taken to court! I guess that's before your time!

I did not hear about it but
I guess that there was a different situation.

Today computers are not allowed by Fide to participate in human tournaments
so I see no way to prove that 2800 is too high for computers.

Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.