Author: Mark Young
Date: 15:40:55 04/30/99
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On April 30, 1999 at 15:31:47, odell hall wrote: >Hi CCC > > I am sure we all Miss Dr. Hyatt (I know I do!). However I think that it is >very convient for Dr. Hyatt to disappear! now that computers are proving in >front of the world that they are Grandmasters!! (Beating a 2673 at game\60 over >several games is not an IM Performance!!) It seems now he doesn't have explain >how it is possible for a so-called "weak International Master" ( Hyatts >Acessment of Top Programs) to Defeat a Fide Elo 2677 in a match at faster than >action chess time controls. In my view If fritz is capable of Beating A super >grandmaster at game\60 which is a reasonably long game, then no doubt it is >grandmaster strength. Ofcourse there is more than this isolated match to come >to this conclusion, kasparov himself said in his recent speech in the united >states that micro programs are now over 2600! Ofcourse We have many >international masters and Grandmasters saying the same things, including Larry >Kaufman. It is now starting to look very silly for anyone to say otherwise, >those that maintain this viewpoint will no doubt lose credibility in the eyes of >the computer chess public. I think most people now think that the Big 3 programs Chessmaster 6000, Fritz 5.32, and Hiarcs 7 running on a decent computer (PII 300 or >) play at a GM level at all time controls. (40 moves in 2hrs. or faster). There are a few experts who cling to the notion that Chess programs other then deep blue play below a GM level, but they will become fewer and fewer in the next year. It has been clear for sometime that programs are playing at a GM level. No, not beyond any doubt, but the evidence is sure leaning hard in favor of GM strength for some programs in terms of a resonable doubt.
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