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Subject: Re: I will hazard a wild guess that a computer can be a GM at G/60

Author: Terry Presgrove

Date: 16:19:20 02/17/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 18:33:20, Dann Corbit wrote:

>The morbid fear of playing on against Deep Junior and the "true" result against
>super GM players shows that (I think) at G/60, a computer does play like a GM.
>Maybe even a super GM.
>
>I think that Amir and Shay should be justifiably proud of their effort.  Any
>machine+program that can strike fear into the heart of a super-GM is an
>astonishing thing.
>
>I think that Adams is not to blame for any controversy.  If I were a player, I
>would always push for any edge I could get, even with the arbitration committee.
>
>Any shame (and there is clearly some to go around) goes to the arbitration
>party.
>{purely}IMO-YMMV.

 I agree. There is little doubt in my mind that at 60/0 the top comps
 on the fastest hardware are super GM's. An interesting question is if we
 assume this to be true what would be the elo difference for GM's going from
 60/0 to 40/2? My guess .......at least 200 pts.

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