Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 02:03:03 01/13/04
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Hi Ed, On January 12, 2004 at 20:42:55, Ed Trice wrote: >Hello Tord , > >>Perhaps in order to get more games against human opponents? When I started >>playing with Gothmog on the ICC last summer (the first games were played on the >>3rd of July last year), I guessed my blitz rating at 2000, which turned out to >>be >>quite realistic. Initially I got a lot of games against human players of widely >>differing strengths. Since then the rating has slowly climbed, it is now at >>2725. During the half year Gothmog has been playing on ICC, I have noticed that >>the number of humans who want to play the engine decreases when the engine >>strength increases. I now almost exclusively play against other computer >>accounts. >> >>I expected that at least the number of GM-level human opponents would increase >>when the engine got stronger, but this hasn't happened. During the first few >>months I had a lot of interesting games agains FMs and IMs, but these have now >>disappeared. I never get any games against GMs. >> > > >This is referred to as: "It's lonely at the top." Not really. You are probably not familiar with ICC ratings. The rating level there is ridiculously inflated compared to all other rating systems in the known universe. Most GMs have ratings far above 3000. Right now, the highest blitz rating belongs to GM Mamedyarov Shariyar, who is rated 3462. His FIDE rating is 2646. On ICC, a 2725 blitz rating is rather ordinary. P.S. I'm sorry for taking a long time to reply to your e-mail from last Friday. I hope to find the time to write back later today. Tord
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