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Subject: Re: The SSDF Rating List is simply ridiculous !

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:22:37 02/25/04

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On February 25, 2004 at 18:17:22, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 25, 2004 at 17:52:39, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>I honestly think that the SSDF rating list is a ridiculous comparison to human
>>rating, with Shredder 7.04 UCI rated over 2800 on a mere AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz. If
>>the initial purpose of the SSDF was to assign computer programs with rating
>>similar to human rating, then the target is way too far off. The SSDF either
>>lower it rating by 100 points or it is time to keep the same rating as it is but
>>start testing with an AMD  XP 3200.
>>
>>Jorge
>
>lowering it by 100 elo is not going to help
>The only way is to pay GM's to play some matches of 40 games against chess
>programs and to have rating of GM's in the ssdf list.
>
>If the ssdf suggest total prizes of 200,000$ for the best fide player who agree
>to play against computers under controlled conditions when the best player
>against computers gets 100,000$ second place gets 60,000$ and third place gets
>40,000$ when they have to play 200 games in a year of 120/40 then maybe we are
>going to see some interesting stuff.
>
>We only need sponsors.

I don't think it is enough.

The data will only be useful if at least 30 games are played by one GM (bare
minimum).  So more than a month to do it.  In the same time frame, I think they
will earn more just in FIDE tournaments.



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