Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:00:49 09/18/00
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On September 18, 2000 at 17:42:06, odell hall wrote:
>Hello CCC
>
>
> How many think the new SSDF List is relatively Accurate? Personally I commend
>SSDF for doing a outstanding Job, Based on my observations of the grandmaster
>Challenge and other 40/2 events, I think the list is very reliable.
>I believe it is safe to say that any top program running on a K62-450 is 2500
>elo, or very near. I think that now that the rating has been significantly
>lowered, this list will be taken far more seriously in determining Fide rating
>for Modern Programs. I am curious if some skeptics of the List in the Past,
>consider the list still to high, or Just about right? Opinions Welcome
I guess the adjustement was justified for the top programs on recent hardware,
but for the older programs on slow hardware the change has been really unfair.
I'm talking about the dedicated chess computer around 1900-2200 elo. Now they
are rated 1800-2100 elo, which is probably not fair at all.
It would have been better to do the change differently. Maybe by adding the
games against human players in the SSDF database, giving them a higher weight
than the comp-comp games, then recompute all the ratings based on this.
I don't know if it is the best way, but just decreasing the whole list by 100
elo points is not exactly a scientific method.
The good thing is that it will stop the main critisism against the SSDF list, I
mean people saying that the computers were overrated.
I'm a strong supporter of the SSDF list. This is why I believe I can tell
franckly my opinion about this change. :)
Christophe
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