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Subject: Re: GM Class Chess Programs

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:42:22 10/31/05

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On October 31, 2005 at 10:33:44, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On October 31, 2005 at 10:01:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 31, 2005 at 09:47:36, Russell wrote:
>>
>>>On October 31, 2005 at 08:12:14, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 31, 2005 at 08:03:31, Richard Heldmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hypothetically speaking(don't wish to offend), are programs like Fruit, Shredder
>>>>>and Fritz running on a standard PC(3 Ghz), IM, GM or SGM class?
>>>>>
>>>>>Is the list of chess programs much larger than the three I mention?
>>>>
>>>>The list of chess programs is clearly larger than the three that you mention
>>>>
>>>>Humans are simply weak at chess and based on results even old ChessTiger14 got
>>>>good super GM results on slower hardware than 3 ghz.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>Humans are weak at chess?
>>
>>All the results that I see prove that humans are weak relative to
>>computers(otherwise they could easily not let programs like tiger14 to get super
>>GM result and will not let other programs to win tournaments easily).
>>
>>The last human who proved that he is able to beat machines was GM smirin who
>>beated programs 5-3 some years ago and even in that case I am sure that better
>>hardware could help the result to be 4-4 because tiger did a mistake and lost
>>because of not searching deep enough.
>>
>>Other humans who played recently matches against strong programs lost and in the
>>last uear hydra or Zappa had no problem to beat their human opponents.
>>
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>Interesting, but when did Zappa play a strong GM? Did I missed a good match
>recently?

Yes
It beated Jaan ehlvest 3-1
I did not remember the exact details but some search in the internet helped me
to find the following link

http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Zappa-Ehlvest

Uri



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