Author: Richard Heldmann
Date: 07:35:34 11/21/05
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On November 20, 2005 at 21:19:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 20, 2005 at 20:56:42, Sherry Windsor wrote: > >>Dr Hyatt now admits reluctantly that computers are now GM strength, >>unfortunately he is still stubbornly stating that they are not over 2600? To me >>this looks very prejudicial. I think they are easily playing at the 2750 level. > >Define "computers". > >Do you mean a big multi-cpu opteron, or a single-cpu home system? > >There is a huge difference... > >I don't admit anything "reluctantly". In 1995 when this discussion started, >computers were nowhere near GM strength. They are now clearly playing at that >level, thanks to great advances in hardware speed from 1995. But they are not >quite super-GM (2700+) yet, unless you talk about very pricey hardware. Not a >$500 home computer. In the current man vs machine match in the city of Bilbao, Spain, Alexander Khalifman vs Fritz 9(Bilbao) running at 1.6 million positions per second on a 2 GHz Centrino notebook, Alexander Khalifman lost in 39 moves. Ruslan Ponomariov vs Deep Junior 9.1 searching 6,300,000 positions per second on a dual core AMD machine was also no competition. Hydra, the only pricey hardware, had the closest match, but still beat Rustam Kasimdzhanov. See http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2747
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