Author: Uri Blass
Date: 19:42:35 02/25/04
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On February 25, 2004 at 18:22:37, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. I talked about 200 games for a GM in a year and I do not think think that most GM's earn 40,000$ in a year from playing in Fide tournament when I talked about 40,000$ for the worst GM as a prize. Uri
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