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Subject: Re: New poll Question? Would anyone now claim comps are not GM strength

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 02:57:37 12/01/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 05:11:33, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On November 30, 2003 at 19:56:49, Eye Witness wrote:
>
>>  "If a computer were to play secretly in a tournament like Linares the special
>>preparation would be taken away and a program like Deep Fritz would finish in
>>one of the top positions."  Vladimir Kramnik 2003
>>
>>
>>I submit comps have been GM strength since Fritz 5 on a Pentium 200 machine.
>>Not always against anti-computer play but regular chess play as described above.
>
>The best comps can't even properly handle 3-fold repetitions in the year 2003.

This has nothing to do with playing strength. Some engines can't handle the
3-fold repetition because human programmmers didn't insert code for this. I
assume this code is one day work, so this is no problem at all.

>And you claim they are GM strength since years? Get real. ;)
>
>Sargon



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