Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:55:57 05/23/00
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On May 24, 2000 at 01:42:28, blass uri wrote: [snip] >Something with elo 2300 will not help much because it is going to win all the >games against humans who start to play in tournament(there is a small >probability that it is not going to win all the games but the practical case >will be winning all the games against unrated opponents who play their first >tournament). > >If the computer will have 9 wins out of 9 games we cannot use the result to give >rating for humans. > >We need something that is weaker than it that will not get 100% or 0% and >something that does sometimes random moves(to prevent humans to win the program >in the same way). Yes, I think you are right. But it might be nice to have a mix. Perhaps one machine that is 2300, one that is 1800, and one that is 1300. Unless we do a round-robin (however) the data will only tell us the relative strength of the strongest and of the weakest entrants accurately. That's the down-side of Swiss tournaments. They don't really tell you a lot about the placement other than first and last as far as strength.
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