Author: stuart taylor
Date: 16:44:31 01/01/06
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On January 01, 2006 at 14:26:49, Charles Roberson wrote: > > Look at the history of human chess. The same question has been asked > for centuries and the answer has repeatedly been yes! Can anybody ever > beat Anderson, Staunton, Morphy, Lasker, Cappablanca, ........... Fischer, > Karpov, Kasparov, ..... > > From a mathematical perspective: yes. The rating system has a 400 pt > standard deviation. With 4 std left and right of the norm, we get a > max rating of 3200. So far, nothing an nobody has that rating. I believe that 400 points was approximately enough to be the expected winner/loser, consistently, but that over 700 points was necesary to make it no contest at all. Still, all this was different with computer chess, anyway. I remember that Turbo King used to be stronger than Novag Scorpio/Diablo, when playing each other. This I knew from my own extensive (manual) testing. But, genius 2 absolutely tore apart Turbo King, and could beat it from almost any position. But did not do the same to Scorpio, but Genius 3 almost WAS able to. But I don't think that Genius 2 (on a 386) was 700 points more than turbo king. S.Taylor
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