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Subject: Re: Hitech

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:03:27 07/08/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 12:46:20, Joshua Lee wrote:

>If You were to put the older Computers Like Hitech or Belle, Cray Blitz, or Deep
>Thought etc up against any of the programs on the SSDF List where would
>they lie?
>
>Belle       2200  USCF?
>Bebe        2260
>Hitech      2400
>Cray Blitz  2435
>DT          2520 USCF Version?
>
>I do realize that you can hardly compare Games versus Humans to a Computer vs
>Computer List
>
>but Is a 2500 USCF rating only 2383FIDE ?

No.  There is no absolute formula.  Ken Sloan (here at UAB) once had a
conversion program that used real FIDE and USCF ratings to compute an estimate.
At the upper end, FIDE and USCF are maybe 50 points apart.  At the 2200-level
they are closer to 200.


>according to the only ratings calculator i could find (i didn't search really
>hard) it is.
>
>I swear the Swedish elo is the same as a FIDE elo but i could be wrong

You would be wrong.  :)  Different rating pools mean the same rating number has
a different meaning for each pool.


>
>Also what ever happened to Hitech ?

Slowly put out to pasture.  Was fast in 1985.  Incredibly slow in 1995.

>
>I would like to see it play any program out there who cares if it get's crushed
>i'll put up a few thousand to see either it play or DT or Cray Blitz.

To see Hitech play DT or CB?  We beat hitech in the final round of the 1986 WCCC
to win the event.  DT had no problems with them, with one early exception.





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