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Subject: Re: Hitech

Author: Jeffrey Wadsworth

Date: 18:13:46 07/08/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 13:03:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.



Yes, but that one exception was a sweet game...



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