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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