Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 08:19:29 03/01/02
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On February 28, 2002 at 11:55:25, Sune Fischer wrote: >On February 28, 2002 at 09:35:27, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>>>But if I play a brick, and I win _every_ game, >>>>my rating will climb for _every_ victory. And it doesn't climb by some >>>>amount that has a limit of zero at the upper end. It climbs by some positive >>>>amount for every win. That spells +infinity... >>> >>>Again this is one of those absurd examples, a brick has -infinity rating or >>>what? What is the elo of the brick, we need to know that to find your elo. >>> >>>-S. >> >>The ELO of a brick is of course 0. You should naturally expect to win every >>game. So lets hope not someone comes and hit you over the head with the brick, >>because then you will lose your rating to the brick. >>And it will take an extreem number of games against the brick to get your rating >>back........ >> >>Torstein > >OK, so Dr. Hyatt has an infinite rating then. >We all have infinite ratings thanks to this example, no no not absurd at all ;) > >The brick has an undefined elo IMO. >Better to put the zero point at random play, that makes more sense. > >-S. I thought the question was what's the rating of perfect chess. (I gues it can become higher then 4000 it depends of the oponents starting point It must be a very strong player who makes all the best moves posible otherwise you can't show that it was perfect chess.) And not how high can your rating become by cheating. Regards Marc van Hal
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