Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:36:01 10/14/05
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On October 13, 2005 at 18:16:06, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Have any of you ever found an ad of a program or chess computer that promise >less than that magic number, 99%? Have you ever found one saying it defeats only >97.5% of all players? >Besides, as this happens since the 80', I would expect some ads saying by now >"it defeats 99,99% of all players". >I would expect the recognition of some progress. >No, always 99%. >Never a program promising to defeat just the guy that serves the coffee in the >chess club, but also never a better program defeating almost everyone on Earth. >No. >Just 99% > > >99% Regards >fernando Today people usually buy programs not to play against them because there is enough free stuff for that purpose. It is known that programs today can beat every human except maybe the top GM's so I will be surprised if there is an advertisment with a claim that it beats 99% of the players because it only can convince people that read it not to buy the product. People assume that everything that they can buy will beat them in the highest level and the real surprise is that there are still products like Excalibur that cannot beat 99% of the players. see the following advertisment that talk only about 95% of the players. http://www.chess4less.com/2-Excalibur%20E-Chess.htm Note that I think that the advertisment is misleading and I doubt if excalibur can beat 50% of the players(beginners are not considered by me as players and players for me are only people who play in tournaments) I think that this product is only for beginners(or people with little experience who played only few friendly games) and over 73 levels from beginner to master is clearly misleading because not only masters(fide rating of 2300) have nothing to do with it but also people who are clearly weaker than it have nothing to do it. I usually do not read advertisments and I was surprised by your message. Uri
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