Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 07:11:31 10/13/99
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Hi Tina, I couldn't remember that about the 100 elopoints! Do I now have 3 minute memory? This is not good... But I trust yours and for longer than 6 minutes or you wouldn't be a chessplayer! Eelco 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. 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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