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Subject: Re: How strong are current Chess Programs?

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 06:50:05 06/11/04

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On June 11, 2004 at 08:36:19, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 11, 2004 at 05:53:23, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>On June 10, 2004 at 19:08:05, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On June 10, 2004 at 18:55:23, mike tubbs wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>I'm a newbie, i was wondering what the strength of the current top five is on
>>>>ordinary hardware xp2000+?  Are they Grandmaster Strength yet?
>>>
>>>Even in 1999 with a mere 450 Mhz, please take a look :-)
>>>
>>>http://www.geocities.com/marochess/ssdf/ssdf.htm
>>
>>YOU said the truth and now you forgot your own words?
>>
>>You said at http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?369716:
>>"...since I always believe that the SSDF rating List is way too inflated and
>>people here on this forum immediately compare the top 10 programs from the SSDF
>>with Humans grandmaster and if the human doesn't have and Elo higher than
>>> 2700 we don't consider them worthy.
>>PS: We need to take into consideration that the SSDF rating is simply a comp vs
>>comp rating and nothin more."
>>
>> And now you give SSDF's list of 1999, to support the statement that engines was
>>GM strength because their SSDF ELO was more than 2600??
>>
>>
>> SSDF's engines ELO, doesn't have almost nothing to do with engines ELO against
>>humans. No one can believe that Shredder on an Athlon 1200MHz is 2800+ ELO. If
>>this was the case, then on a 2800+ XP would be 2900+. Too optimistic!
>
>I do not see how can you get this conclusion.
>
>How do you know that the difference between
>shredder8 A1200 and shredder8 2800+ XP is 100 elo against humans?

 You are right. I don't know it. I just put the perfect rounded number 100, for
being the difference between XP 2800+ and Athlon 1200 MHz. The difference could
be any number(I believe positive).

>Maybe it is only 40 elo.
>
>Assume that you are right that shredder on A1200 is weaker than 2800.
>How do you know that the ssdf list is also inflated for engines of 1999.
>Maybe it is only inflated for engines of 2004?

 The only thing i claim is that the SSDF list is coming from eng-eng matches, so
the ELO's of the engines on the SSDF list, is not with almost any way,
comparable to the ELO's of the humans in the FIDE list.

>
>Uri



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