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Subject: Re: how much rating can be achieved by consulting?

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 07:54:33 08/29/04

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On August 29, 2004 at 08:07:37, Uri Blass wrote:

>In the case of computers 2 processors can achieve near 50 elo improvement
>relative to one processor.
>
>I think that it may be interesting to know how much can be achieved by humans.
>
>If 2 humans with equal rating have the right to consult during the game then
>what is going to be the rating of the team in the best case?
>
>Assume for the discussion time control of 90 minutes per game+30 seconds per
>move.
>
>Unfrtunately 2 humans are not allowed to register to tournaments as a team so we
>do not know answer to that question.
>
>I think that it will be good if chess federations allow team of humans to get a
>rating.
>
>There is a rule that writing notes is not allowed during games even without
>consulting.
>Disturbing the opponents by noise is also not allowed so the team has to consult
>by agreed languages of signs.
>
>I think also that it may be more interesting to have team of humans against team
>of processors.
>
>it is not fair that only computers has the right to consult by doing parallel
>search when human opponents have not right to consult by the same way when one
>human analyze line A and another human analyze line B.
>
>Uri

With two processors you don't have the risk that one will decide that the other
is an idiot, get angry and refuse to play.

Dan H.



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