Author: Dan Homan
Date: 06:45:18 06/08/98
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On June 08, 1998 at 07:10:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >On June 05, 1998 at 20:25:15, Will Singleton wrote: > >> >>>On June 05, 1998 at 11:14:24, Dan Homan wrote: >>> >>>I'll log EXchess onto FICS tonight. I should have an account >>>set up on ICC soon. (I've set it up, but I am just waiting for the >>>admin to register it as a free computer account.) I was waiting >>>until I could afford a fast machine, but I figure that will be >>>a long way away.... >>> >>> - Dan >>> >> >>Yes, ICC does have slightly more action. The program is hardly ever >>idle, plays almost continuously. Good competition too, though the >>ratings are inflated relative to fics. >> >>Will > >Are they really inflated, considering that at icc the average >timecontrol of >a game is way faster? Definitely inflated, by at least 100 pts. My program plays on both servers with essentially the same time controls (almost always 5 0, some 3 5) and is about 100 pts stronger on ICC. This is after only a weekend of play on ICC, however, and I had a bug in my icc (hacked robofics) interface which caused me to hang and lose many games to < 1500 strength players. I think the descrepancy will be larger when I play more games. Several other programs that I know seem to have +200 (or more) pts on ICC relative to FICS using the same hardware, but I do not know about time controls. It is very plausable that one server may be inflated/deflated with respect to another... for many reasons. One might be that FICS and ICC use slightly different rating systems - the FICS system takes into account how many games you have played recently when deciding how much your rating should change as a result of a given game. I guess that it really doesn't matter the reason though, because all that is meaningful is the rating difference between players on the same server. - Dan >Greetings, >Vincent
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