Author: Harald Faber
Date: 00:45:17 12/30/99
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On December 30, 1999 at 02:33:56, blass uri wrote: >>I'm not going to get dragged into this again, but I will say that if a program >>is said to be playing at 2600, then test it against 2600 players and see how it >>does. Showing it can beat up players rated 200-400 points less means very >>little, even if it can be entertaining. Just my 2 cents. I'm aware that can be >>incredibly difficult to arrange, but I see no other way around this, if the >>truth is what is being sought. Being 2600 means more than beating 2400 players, >>it means holding your own against 2600 players, no? I think this upcoming >>Israeli leagure in which both Junior 6 (Deep Junior?) and Rebel Century will be >>playing should be quite instructive as the human opponents, due to the nature of >>the event, will be very motivated. >> >> Albert Silver > >I think that the performance of Rebel,Deep Junior and Fritz in the Israeli >league is going to be lower than the real rating of them because of the fact >that the opponent teams can choose the human to play against the computer. > >Uri And what is the point? Why should the TPR be lower than supposed? Do you expect the teams sending ELO2000 for comp-playing? Does the Israel-first league have such players?
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