Author: GuyHaworth
Date: 12:46:12 07/09/03
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The main message is that SHREDDER 7.04 dominates the field by some 40 points, approximately the same as Kasparov leads the FIDE ELO list. The 2800+ figure is not meaningful, as stated elsewhere here. I heard once that there was an inflationary effect built (incidentally rather than deliberately) into the ELO system. I don't know if this is true, or if so, why it is true. But if so, I would expect the SSDF rating list to 'inflate' faster than FIDE's as the same number of games happens in a shorter time. I don't know if ELO ratings can be pegged back on a fairly frequent basis to counteract this. One could compare the top-figure trend in SSDF v that in FIDE. Did not SSDF peg back all its ELO ratings by some number like a 100 some time ago? Certainly, some mechanism to correlate the two ELO lists would be welcome. This has to involve computer-human play. To encourage the human side, the computers should not play on the latest N-wide rack-mounted-PCs server but on the sort of kit that SSDF are using. g
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