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

Author: blass uri

Date: 09:43:02 10/12/99

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On October 12, 1999 at 00:30:00, Tina Long wrote:

>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.

I think they need to drop the difference in rating
They may translate every 100 elo difference to 50 elo difference because
100 elo difference in comp-comp games is probably less than 100 elo against
humans(maybe only 50 elo).

Uri

  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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