Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 09:41:49 05/19/00
Go up one level in this thread
On May 19, 2000 at 09:37:19, Chris Carson wrote: >I am planning to publish an updated list list here with >all rated human vs computer results for 40/2 events. > >Please let me know your thoughts on the following: > >1. Exclude Performance Rating when 3 or fewer games > have been played by a program/hardware. > No problem with this, people who know understand they are not very meaningful, and people who do not know will misinterpret your list one way or another. >2. Exclude forfiets and protest resignations (Dutch Championship), > and games where computers lost due to hardware, IP failures, > or operator error. > I think forfeits do not count. About the protest resignations, I am not sure. I lean towards counting them, but I understand there are very strong and valid objections. Operating mistakes definitely count (you can bet the Israeli chess federation will rate Shredder loss on time due to a careless operator). >3. Publish all results and PGN's for above exclusions, but do not > include in performance ratings. > Publishing all results is OK. If controversial results are counted, just add a note. >I plan to publish here at CCC first, so that everyone can review the >results and performance ratings. I will then send the list, results, >and PGN's to Tony for listing at his website. The PGN's are from TWIC, >CCC and other sources, so I do not guarantee the acuracy of the PGN's, >I have verified all the results against published tournament sources, but >there may be conflicts with the PGN's (ISR 2000 comes to mind) and I no way >to verify PGN's. > >Thanks for your opinions. I am sure that some will not be happy with >the list, but I am trying to make it as accurate as possible. > You are doing a good job. >Best Regards, >Chris Carson José.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.