Author: James Robertson
Date: 16:28:32 08/13/99
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On August 13, 1999 at 18:48:04, Terry Ripple wrote: >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 Just a quick thought on FICS cheating: I have played over 1000 rated games on FICS and only once can I remember meeting a player who's rating was much lower than his play (he was 1200 and won a tournament with mean rating > 1800). I have played SapphireII (I'm fluctuating between 1700 and 1800 FICS) and don't think it is master. I have also never beaten it, but just the latest blitz game I was several pawns up before blundering 3 moves in a row and missing mate in 1. :\ James James
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