Author: James Robertson
Date: 13:27:01 08/13/99
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On August 13, 1999 at 14:23:47, Terry Ripple wrote: >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 I have an incredibly hard time believing it to be anywhere near 2250 at 40/2. I will have to take all of Kaufmann's reviews with a grain of salt.... James
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