Author: Mike S.
Date: 16:17:25 09/18/00
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On September 18, 2000 at 19:00:49, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. :) I agree with you, but I think SSDF would say "Having such supporters, we don't need critics..." :-) - Expecting scientific methods, that's where the trouble begins. Regards, M.Scheidl
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