Author: stuart taylor
Date: 05:05:31 01/02/06
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On January 01, 2006 at 19:44:31, stuart taylor wrote: >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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