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Subject: Re: SSDF should recalibrate!!!!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:29:04 05/21/00

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On May 21, 2000 at 17:26:14, Marcos Christensen wrote:

>On May 21, 2000 at 15:55:35, ShaktiFire wrote:
>
>>The Rebel GM Challenge, the Dutch Championship, the Israeli league.
>>They all point to  a rating of around 2480-2500 for the top
>>programs.  Clearly SSDF needs to recalibrate their rating downward
>>by a 200 or so points.
>    I agree, or perhaps  they should call their rating another name, or use
>another system (not elo) to not make confusion with human rating. I also think
>that is almost clear that "computer chess" and human chess are different games,
>the rules are the same but how they play is different.
>    I also have a question, if a human 2600 elo plays a human 2300 how I expect
>the win/losses?
>           thanks Marcos Christensen

The weaker player should score 15%.

200 points is about 25%, and 100 points is about 40%.

bruce



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