8/26/2003 – On August 24 the well-known statistician Jeff Sonas presented an article entitled
"
How strong
are the top chess programs?" In it he looked at the performance
of top programs against humans, and attempted to estimate an Elo
rating on the basis of these games. One of the programs, Brutus, is the work
of another statistician, Dr Chrilly Donninger, who replies to Jeff Sonas.