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Subject: Re: The New SSDF List Accurate?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:22:03 09/19/00

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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


For anyone that understands the statistics in the Elo system, the correction
makes zero sense.  There is no way to take two totally different rating pools,
and adjust one set of ratings to make them comparable to the others.  As has
been pointed out so many times here, the _difference_ between two ratings is
the _important_ piece of data.  Not the raw ratings themselves.  All this
correction does is attempt to correct highly over-rated numbers on the SSDF
list.  Adjusting _all_ ratings on their list changes _nothing_ of course.  And
it still doesn't mean that their ratings have anything to do with FIDE ratings,
other than the top programs are now a bit closer to "reality ratings"...



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