Author: Uwe Meißner
Date: 01:26:45 04/28/04
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On April 27, 2004 at 08:58:03, William Penn wrote: >On April 26, 2004 at 04:23:09, Angelo Ciavarella wrote: > >>An article dated Feb.19,2004 at >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/correspondence_chess, states that computers are no >>match for the strongest CC players if left to play a complete game.The current >>champion has not lost a single game playing white in 40 years!! >>Angelo > >My personal crude estimate is that the top chess programs can only manage an Elo >rating of about 2450 on the ICCF scale, if allowed about 4 hours to calculate >each move on a 2GHz processor. To put it another way, players rated above 2450 >ICCF are probably using some human brain power. Please don't confuse the name of >the processor with the ratings; the similarity is purely coincidental... :) >WP Quite realistic! But only on the basis that humans use also engines as in the GM Nickel-Match. Humans without engines might have only little chances against computers in Correspondence Chess.
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