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Subject: Re: deep blue elo

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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