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Subject: Re: Measuring Elo Drift

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 13:14:56 09/30/98

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On September 26, 1998 at 14:31:23, John Coffey wrote:

>I had made a similar suggestion to Dahoora on ICC a few years ago.  The idea
>is that ratings are pretty volatile.  So my suggestion is that he take a
>computer program that will not change and use it to measure rating drift
>on ICC, and then if the ratings do drift he could adjust his rating system
>accordingly to bring them back in line.
>
>He turned the idea down.
>
>I suspect that in a few years that online chess will be so easily available
>to everyone that online ratings will be considered more important than OTB
>ratings.
>
>John Coffey
>
>Make chess, not war.

Also can we be sure that net lag is completely negated by such utilities as
TimeStamp and Time seal? Also computer cheating will always be with us.
--
Komputer Korner



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