Author: Graham Laight
Date: 05:52:52 09/19/00
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On September 18, 2000 at 19:00:49, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. The problem is that the humans have moved upwards against the computers by discovering the power of killing off tactics in a position - e.g. by blocking the centre. In view of this increase in the sophistication of humans, I think the re-rating is entirely fair. -g >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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