Author: stuart taylor
Date: 08:46:50 09/19/00
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On September 19, 2000 at 10:22:03, Robert Hyatt 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 > > >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"... Yes! And if your want to play around with the test results anyway, it may be more worthwhile to get a GM to make his own tests, and estimate a rating for each program. Why change around what was scientifically tested? S.Taylor
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