Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:31:56 05/19/00
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On May 19, 2000 at 13:50:04, Alberto Rezza wrote: >>>Sure, but if the purpose of this rating list is to give us an idea of the >>>strength of programs, I would discard games that we know are meaningless, like >>>the 2 forfeits of Fritz in Holland and this Shredder game. The key word, to me, >>>is "meaning", and this game has none. The list may be more complicated, but also >>>more accurate. >> >>What about the GM's wife example? The computer won or lost? Or drop the >>game? You never get a perfect system. Why not stick to the FIDE rule? >>If you lose on time you have lost whatever happened. 2 hurrays, not 3 >>as 3 is too much. > >Suppose computers were allowed to play in tournaments and get ratings, titles, >etc. Human players would expect a program to enter the tournament with the >correct rating, since their own rating change would depend on it. > >Now imagine I write a program and have it play in some tournaments. It gains a >rating of, say, 2200. Then I realize that my operator is making far too many >mistakes, and I decide to operate the program myself in the next event. No more >operator mistakes, suddenly my program is playing at the 2500 level. Every human >player starts to protest, and with good reason... > >No, operator error should definitely be left out of any program's rating. > >Alberto It is wrong either way. But when the operator was making mistakes, the rating that counted those mistakes was _right_. Because rating predicts outcomes vs other opponents. There is a lot to be said for consistency... but computers are anything but, when you have one machine, one operator, one network connection, one program, one operating system, one set of disk drives, etc. Lot to go wrong. And it will. I have lost games on ICC due to hardware failures, disk failures, network failures, local NFS failures, etc. Those are just a part of the computer's "package".
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