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Subject: Re: Sept 26,99 rating list: 4 Swedish ratings over 2600 is it grandmaster?

Author: Tina Long

Date: 21:30:00 10/11/99

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On October 11, 1999 at 11:56:18, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>   On the website: www.icdchess.com/software/ratings/ssdflist.html Sept. 26,
>1999 are the top 4 have grandmaster norms if their ratings stay the same?
>These 4 use the 450 megahertz hardware and the latest Intel chip.
>   In other news, as far as I know, nobody has played IBM's Deeper Blue for more
>than 2 years.

Many years ago, perhaps 1990ish, the SSDF decided their ratings had become
inflated and dropped every computer by about 100 points.  (I have a 6 minute
memory, 10 years ago is a bit foggy).

Perhaps they need to do this again.  In a couple of years they will be using 1
or 2 gigahertz hardware, and presumable the programs that get tested on that
hardware will so cream the pentium 90's that they'll be pushing 2800 ratings.

Ah but this grandmaster strength debate will be interesting in a few years.



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