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Strongest chess player, ever

  • 01-06-2014 1:35pm
    #1
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭


    Lichess upgrades all artificial intelligence servers to the best chess engine in the world!
    This week, something wonderful happened. Stockfish, the open source competitor in the race for the best chess engine, has won the TCEC tournament.
    Here are the chess engines ratings at the end of the tournament:
    1. Stockfish 3168
    2. Komodo 3151
    3. Houdini 3145
    4. Vitruvius 3098
    5. Bouquet 3077
    6. Rybka 3072
    During the final event, after playing 64 games against Komodo, Stockfish won with the score of 35½-28½. No doubt is further allowed: Stockfish is the best chess player ever!
    http://en.lichess.org/blog/U4mtoEQAAEEAgZRL/strongest-chess-player-ever


Comments

  • #2
    EnPassant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭EnPassant


    Interesting site - it's the first time I visited it.

    But surely Stockfish is the strongest chess player in the same way as a Ferrari is the fastest runner?


  • #3
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Has Fritz dropped out of the reckoning altogether now?

    Have to say I thought computers would be rated way higher at this stage. I know it's high, but 3150 doesn't feel untouchably high. Even though I know it is, for all intents and purposes.


  • #4
    reunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,334 ✭✭✭reunion


    Aren't people expecting Carlsen to break 3000 in the future?


  • #5
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    reunion wrote: »
    Aren't people expecting Carlsen to break 3000 in the future?
    That's rather ambitious. He'd have to have a staggering lead over his contemporaries. He'll do well do break 2900 any time soon.


  • #6
    reunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,334 ✭✭✭reunion


    Well if you look at his rating, it's been gaining 2.65 points on average per 2 month period (since FIDE introduced a 2 monthly rating list).

    The average has been 2 points per 2 months since he hit 2800. Since this time last year, the increase is 1.4 per every 2 months.

    At that trend, Carlsen should break 2900 at the end of 2016 and 3000 at the middle of 2028.

    However if we go by points gained per game since last year, it stands at 0.26 points per game.
    This means if he plays another 73 games he should pass the 2900 mark, which by his current trend of games per year (50 games a year) would pass it in November next year. The 3000 mark would be passed after 457 more games, or at his current trend, 9 years time.

    The 3000 is rather ambitious but I've read and heard that some people expect him to be able to break 3000 rating.


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