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Subject: Re: This Super Laptop with Fritz 8 would even beat Judith Polgar!

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 18:01:22 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 20:57:22, Andrei P wrote:

>On June 09, 2004 at 20:17:35, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>On June 09, 2004 at 19:59:53, Andrei P wrote:
>>
>>>On June 09, 2004 at 19:35:47, Derek Paquette wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 09, 2004 at 19:28:53, Andrei P wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 09, 2004 at 18:49:40, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Taking on a 3400+ AMD 64 with 2 GB RAM and Fritz 8
>>>>>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1703
>>>>>
>>>>>well, supposedly the game could have been a draw. it was all up to her to take
>>>>>it or to continue. if she has played mostly female players she might be 100 elo
>>>>>underated. that makes it a draw against 2600 -> not that impressive. but we need
>>>>>many more games for any meaningful statistics. and we are not gonna get those
>>>>>anyways...
>>>>
>>>>better than a loss,
>>>>we've seen 2700 FIDE males lose to 2500 elo males,
>>>>so the program is doing better than that,
>>>>and its not even the best program,
>>>
>>>
>>>yes, but on this laptop with fritz 8 should rate 2900 points and beat Zhu Chen
>>>most of the time and we are talking equal game here. makes me wonder if ssdf is
>>>200-300 overated, but, again, it is just one game.
>>
>>Not sure how you are making that assertion,
>>on ICC i *think* that Blarg is the fastest machine right now, not too long ago
>>his rating was shown, and i think in classical time control he only lost 6% of
>>his games
>>i would LOVE to know how many times he's beaten a human.
>
>I don't trust icc ratings they are inflated and can't be compared to fide
>rating. also, the time control in standard is typically 15 min on icc. and
>computers have been known for 5 years to be better at this time control then the
>top humans. but that is not "real" chess.
>
>ssdf is much better rating because the time control is >2hr, all they need is to
>recalibrate the scale

recalibrate the scale for those specific cpu's i agree,
but as we've seen with DJ8 and DF8, and DF7,  the engines on big systems live up
to their ratings.



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