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Subject: Re: Are the top 5 programs at super GM level?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:19:05 01/03/06

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On January 03, 2006 at 23:54:47, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

>Let's assume that you have tournments against the top humans and you have rybka,
>fruit 2.2., shredder, fritz9, and hiarcs 10 all running on a single processor
>computer (a good one)
>
>Let's further assume that the humans do not know they are playing computers and
>do not use an anticomputer style.
>
>Where would these five engines rate in the list of GMs? Would they be at the
>super gm level? Or would they barely beat master level players?

Definitely, without doubt, super-GM at blitz.
It's wild extrapolation, but probably super-GM at 40/2.
It's even wilder extrapolation, but probably IM or GM even at correspondence.

We really don't have a lot of data.  Maybe the GM's would learn strategies
against them (but if that is the case, then why don't they similarly learn
strategies against each other).  All the contests in which computers take part
seem to put them on footing with top level GMs.

At correspondence, I don't think they are as good as Hammarat, and GM Nickel
clearly holds his own against the best.

But that too, must fall.  Exponential curves being what they are.



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