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Subject: Re: A 1932 rated Super Grandmaster or Computer Program? Your pick

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 04:31:16 01/25/05

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On January 25, 2005 at 06:31:30, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 25, 2005 at 06:08:05, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>On January 25, 2005 at 01:57:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>56...Nh5+. I suspect that most strong engines will easily be able to see the
>>>>>forced mate in this position. The King sees Mate in 10 in less than one second.
>>>>>
>>>>>But it certainly wouldn't take an "exceptional human" to beat DF8 in a 5-minute
>>>>>game when it was only playing on a Celeron 500. Any IM would have a reasonable
>>>>>chance at it, and perhaps even a Master could get lucky.
>>>>>
>>>>>jm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Not so sure about this, remember genius 3 on pentium 90 won a game/25 tourney
>>>>over strong grandmasters, computers are known to be even stronger at faster time
>>>>controls, another factor is that genius was 200 points below top programs.
>>>
>>>
>>>I doubt if it is correct at fast blitz.
>>>Fritz was never tested seriously at 1 minute/game on slow hardware.
>>>
>>> Anand
>>>>Lost a blitz match to rebel 10 running on Amd 450.  I doubt a 1900 can suceceed
>>>>were Super Grandmastes have failed.
>>>
>>>I am sure 1900 player have chances to win a blitz game against stupid program
>>>like Fritz8.
>>
>> Why do you say Fritz 8 a stupid program? I don't say it's more intelligent than
>>humans in many areas of the Chess game, but it can beat 0.9999% of them(us) for
>>sure and with the other 0.0001% of humans that remains, the game is equal. So
>>judging from the result and only we can't say Fritz 8 is stupid........
>
>You do not need intelligence to beat 0.9999% of the humans.

Hmmm, i can't understand you here. What do you need? Luck?
If you can win the 0.9999% of the Chess-playing humans then i think it is true
that you have a type of high intelligence, although a different one from that
humans have...........


>
>>
>> It does not understand a positional move that requires a deep plan and this
>>makes it stupid there.
>
>It is not a deep plan(the knight has no squares to go and fritz does not
>understand it in it's evaluation)
>
>Note that I do not say that movei is smarter and movei has no knowledge about
>trapped knight but movei is not commercial and I expect commercial program to
>know better.
>
>Fritz is clearly stupid relative to what we can expect from a top commercial
>program.
>
>Uri



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