Yuri (ceaseless_melon)

Race #516

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Official speed 57.62 wpm (91.84 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 1, 2020 9:19:15am UTC
Race Finish November 1, 2020 9:20:47am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Opponents 1. fexer (87.07 wpm)
2. surya_v (63.89 wpm)
4. new_typerer (57.49 wpm)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 74.90
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In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.