Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:13:44 09/03/05
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On September 03, 2005 at 17:01:34, Tony Werten wrote: >On September 02, 2005 at 09:00:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 01, 2005 at 11:21:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On August 31, 2005 at 23:25:40, A. Cozzie wrote: >>> >>>You're too polite. >>> >>>Hydra gives any passed pawn at 7th rank like +3.0 blindfolded and a queen >>>attacking the opponent king is like +2.0 >>> >>>Get a position where either of those 2 assumptions aren't true and it looks >>>silly. >>> >>>Zappa at a quad is i expect about 200 points stronger than Hydra at >>>tournament time control. >> >>That has got to be the most far-fetched, exaggerated, ridiculous, nonsensical >>statement I have ever seen posted here, by _anybody_... > >Some people use the word "million" to idicate "about thousand times more than a >thousand" some to indicate "1,000,000.000" > >If 2 certain people would recognize the difference the might get along a lot >better :) > >Tony > >( Just back from a good holiday, still with a peacefull mind) A chess player saying "200 rating points better" ought to have a pretty specific meaning, would you not think? Of course, Whether it be Hydra. Or Deep Blue. Or whatever. We'll always hear this kind of stuff...
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