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Subject: Re: The truth about chess programs- 3000 Elo is very High, i am not sure

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 08:34:00 04/24/05

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On April 23, 2005 at 21:53:09, Tanya Deborah wrote:

>On April 22, 2005 at 12:59:20, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
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>3000 Elo is very very High..  I really dont think so.
>
>If Hydra can play at this level in the match against GM Adams, It will be very
>difficult to Adams to has an advantage or a superior game in some of the six
>games. It means almost 300 elo points more. With that difference GM Adams only
>can draw, and this is very hard to believe. We will see.
>
>Regards!
>Tanya.

     Hi Tanya, you cannot compare ELO's for Computers and other games,
with ELO's calculated for Humans.

The Formula is the same for both, but they are not comparable.

A 3000 Elo for a machine is not the same as a 3000 Elo for a human.

OK?


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>>Computers are better tactially
>>Humans are better positionally
>>
>>Computers never tire and make a slip
>>Humans sometimes have nice long range plans
>>
>>Top level humans do not play anticomputer chess very often.
>>
>>But I think the strongest programs are probably pretty close the the strongest
>>humans even on a 2 GHz personal computer, which is pretty amazing.
>>
>>We don't have enough computer/human interaction to make a certain statement
>>about strength.  But tournament results show that the best computer systems can
>>compete with the best humans.



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