Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 11:23:47 08/13/99
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On August 13, 1999 at 10:56:21, James Robertson wrote: >On August 13, 1999 at 03:18:37, Miguel A. Guzman wrote: > >>Sapphire II plays at the FICS. This are its records: >> >>Statistics for SapphireII(C) On for: 5 hrs, 20 mins, 55 secs Idle: 37 mins >> >> rating RD win loss draw total best >>Blitz 1926 25.7 3035 1110 324 4469 2210 (06-Oct-98) >>Standard 2053 40.9 1330 383 134 1847 2215 (02-Mar-99) >>Lightning 2014 40.9 561 294 52 907 2287 (06-Apr-99) >> >>You be the judge. ;) > >Oops, missed your post. I have never played SapphireII, but after watching many >games it has played, it seems very vulnerable to the 'computer-playing human' >rated 1750 and up you find so often on FICS. My personal opinion is that it is >not master strength, at least not against the FICS crowd. > >James Hi James, The figures seem artificial because Larry Kaufmann's review praises it to be about a solid 2250 USCF at 40/2hrs, which come from his personal tests and- analysis of it's games played. Like you said, there is alot of cheating on the chess sites and i played several people who claimed their ratings were in the 1500 to 1600's but played more like strong expert at times and like masters other times. Figure that one out!!! Some of the posts to this post give SapphireII the same strength as Larry did! Regards,Terry
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