Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:25:24 11/27/99
Go up one level in this thread
On November 27, 1999 at 17:36:23, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>On November 27, 1999 at 11:56:17, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>
>> Is there a web site that has conversion between ratings?
>> There is:
>> SSDF Swedish
>> ELO Hungarian
>> USCF United States
>> FIDE International (and a lot more)
>> Yes, the November 1999 chess computer List uses the Swedish rating method.
>> Maybe percentiles (among humans and/or computers) could be the universal
>>method also.
>> It is safe bet you could use 99%, 99.1%, 99.2%, etc.
>> Almost everything is two thousand something (2000+) for the latest computer
>>list in which 3000 is 100 percent.
>> There should be no philosophical differences on this one.
>> I do have a conversion between USCF and FIDE in a rule book.
>> Jonathan (14th message)
>
>There aren't enough games played between these programs and humans under
>tournament conditions to generate a successful conversion. There is enough
>trouble trying to convert ratings between the human scales. None of the top
>SSDF programs have real FIDE or USCF ratings.
>
>They are very strong. Whether they are as strong as GM's or IM's or what is
>open to contention.
>
>If they aren't as strong as typical GM's already, they are within a hardware
>generation or two of being that strong. This doesn't mean that they will be
>able to understand every position as well as a GM, it simply means that they'll
>score 50% in tournament play on a computer that you can lift.
>
>In 1995 at the Hong Kong WCCC everyone was asked when they thought computers
>would be as strong as the world champion. My pick was not published in the
>ICCAJ, presumably since I was a nobody. My date was 2005, and I'm still
>sticking to this four and a half years later.
>
>bruce
I don't expect any company to try to repeat or improve on Deep Blue, although
I'd love to be wrong, so I can only assume you believe a PC (or combination
of)will be as good or better than the current Deep Blue in 5-6 years time. I
find this hard to believe but who knows? If Hsu comes through with the
commercialization of his DB chips, who can say? Barring that, I don't agree.
Albert Silver
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.