Author: James Robertson
Date: 20:36:40 10/16/99
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On October 16, 1999 at 14:38:56, odell hall wrote: [snip] > First of all I don't know of anyone that is claiming programs are 2600+ at >40/2. What about Larry Kaufman? What about Kasparov? You brought these two's opinions up many times before we had actual games.... James >The projections I have heard was 2500+. And since Rebel is very near that >rating now, I don't see why this is considered so rediculous. You state that you >"believe" the rating would drop if the match was repeated seven times. Can you >give some statistics or evidence to back this up? Frankly the idea that humans >somehow are going to improve 100 pts against humans over time is somewhat >suspect to me. Could you give me a specific example of what you mean? Are you >saying the human for instance will discover some weakness in how the program >handles the kings indian, or sicilian and thus exploit that weakness? I guess >this whole idea is unclear. Since the computers book will navigate it around >many of these problems I really cannot see what you mean.
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