Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 15:48:04 08/13/99
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On August 13, 1999 at 17:47:03, James Robertson wrote: >I have an incredibly hard time believing this when watching humans rated from >1700 and up beat it at G/5, G/10, etc. I myself have never seen its rating >higher than 2100 blitz on FICS, and it usually sits at about 2050. After >7000 >rated games, I think the FICS rating might be more accurate than 3 games by the >author of that article's son. > >James James, i have my doubts about the accuracy of games played Internationaly on FICS because of the cheating and especially against a lower rated program is a target to increase ones rating! Getting back to the article, Larry analysed its games and performed his tests to determine his answer to Sapphires strength and he himself no doubt fooled around with it and played a few! ( Speculation ) I forgot to mention that i have a friend who is rated USCF 2065 and has been an Expert for a very long time and he is 78 yrs old. He owns the SapphireII and he says that he played 46 games at 40/2hrs and scored a total of only 12.5 points out of 46! I have another friend who just purchased one so he can take it to work and get practice as he has several hours per day that he could be playing to help keep him in shape. He is in the low 1900's and it will be interesting to see what results he gets against it. I myself never had the chance to play against it. Regards,Terry
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