Author: Ted Summers
Date: 08:59:43 11/21/05
On November 21, 2005 at 10:35:34, Richard Heldmann wrote: >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 With the exception of Fritz 9 I would not call the other to systems Desktop PC's the kind that Mr. Hyatt is speaking of. Note also: FIDE Top 100 Oct 2005 http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml?list=men 19 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2704 35 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2670 50 Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2653 Here I only see one 2700+ player, and he is not a very strong one at that.
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