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Subject: Re: Flaw in ICC best list : an illustration

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 19:23:30 05/04/99

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On May 04, 1999 at 16:47:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I have a puzzlement:
>Dlugy (who I assume is:)
>FICSID	NAME	COUNTRY	RO	BIRTHDAY	SEX
>2000075	Dlugy, Maxim	USA	2530	1/29/66	M
>
>Seems to eat computers up at their peak strength -- the speed games.  Why is he
>not even on the board at standard?  I would think he would be kicking gluteous
>maximus.

You are making the assumption that he is playing the computers.  He is not
playing the computers.  He is a very fast player, he plays *humans* at 3 0 and
wins almost every game.

Perhaps I would be surprised if he played a match where he was genuinely and
unquestionably motivated, but evidence suggests that he would score well under
50% against the computers at fast blitz, which means that his rating would
settle in at something under theirs.

There are tactics that people and computer operators can use to inflate their
ratings in various categories.  It doesn't make much sense to draw significant
conclusions from the ICC rating list.

bruce


bruce



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