Author: William Penn
Date: 09:53:15 04/30/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 11:26:51, martin fierz wrote: >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 Ratings are relative... :) I don't know the exact dates of Fritz versions, but your Fritz 4 in 1999 was probably one of the better available softwares at that time. So a 2378 rating for a few games sounds OK. Now, both you and opponents will be using stronger software, but the ratings are still relative. If you could have used a current program such as Fritz 8 back in 1999, perhaps you could have achieved over 2450 rating. Now, I doubt it, because your opponents have Fritz 8 too. However there's nothing magic about the 2450 number, which is just my best educated guesstimate. WP
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