Author: Amir Ban
Date: 12:43:59 10/16/99
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On October 16, 1999 at 01:29:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 15, 1999 at 23:55:47, walter irvin wrote: > >>does anyone care to speculate what elo the deep blue that defeated kasparov was >>playing at . i know it was too few games to pin down an exact elo . does anyone >>believe a micro program like fritz ect could win 1 in 5 games vs db ?? if db was >>on icc could it be beaten at blitz by ANY of the players there ??? i'm just >>curious as to what others think about this . > > >I would speculate, and it is _real_ speculation, that it was in the 2750-2850 >range. Based on lots of things including deep thought performing at 2600 over >25 games to get the Fredkin 2 prize, plus beating kasparov. Whether it is >stronger than Kasparov or not is a good question. It is clearly close enough >to worry about. > You were told here only a week that this was for 2500 USCF (i.e. about ELO 2400), and you acknowledged this information. How did you manage to forget it so fast ? This is not the first time that when corrected on a piece of Deep Blue information, you acknowledged mistake, then immediately went back to repeating it. >No, I doubt any program would win more than an occasional rare game vs DB >at blitz. "scratchy" played on ICC a while and had the best win/lose record >of all time. That was only deep thought.
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