Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:26:51 04/29/04
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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 i don't believe a word of this. i have an ICCF rating of 2378 which i achieved by playing a few games in switzerland around '99 or 2000. the games were of very poor quality, as i used to come home late, turn on my old computer at that time, start chessbase with fritz4 or so, and quickly hack away my moves within a minute or so. i'd say most of my OTB games are better than these correspondence games, at least as far as strategy goes - of course there are no horrible blunders in the correspondence games. i think the computers are doing quite well against nickel up to now, they will get more than a 2450 rating out of those games... cheers martin
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