Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 11:39:06 12/13/99
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On December 13, 1999 at 13:13:58, blass uri wrote: >On December 13, 1999 at 11:03:16, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >>Intelligence test: >> >>Can you see the main difference between the following statements? (solution will >>be providet later today) >> >>- " In other words, HIARCS 7 plays tournament chess on a par with the top five >>players in the U.S. " (Kaufman) >> >>- " Computers are GM strength. " (Unruh) > >I guess that the first sentence means only that hiarcs played tournament games >at the level of GM's(probably against computers or humans who did not try to >play in an anti-computer style). > >It does not say that it can get 50% against GM's because GM's can change their >style against hiarcs and the result will be that hiarcs is " going to stop playing like a GM. "Oh so you admit it plays like a GM?" No such thing, Just because a specific indidvidual looks up all of your weaknesses does not mean that you are not playing at grandmaster strength. It just means that the person who prepared is playing stronger than what they would normally, because they have specific knowledge that they don't normally have. I could take H7 out the same day and play it against another GM, and H7 could very well win. I'll take a risk and point out a specific example of a human. GM Kaidanaov showed up in the US and for a bit he was RULING american chess, after a while U.S GM's became more prepared for him, he no longer has strings of great victories in the U.S. However it doesn't mean that he's not grandmaster strength, He still beats 99.~% of the patzers, and H7 will do the same thing, It will beat at least the same %of the population and chessplayers as a low GM. However this is off the topic, and it concedes the point. You would be making the claim that "Yes H7 plays Grandmaster strength, but after a while when everyone knows it's weakneses, then the grandmasters will beat it, but until then it would be GM strength". Something that is of a side note is that frequently when a GM tries to alter his own natural style to get someone else or a computer in this case frequently this actually results in them playing weaker chess(not always but in many cases yes indeed).
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