Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:55:01 09/19/00
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On September 18, 2000 at 19:17:25, Mike S. wrote:
>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.
My critisism against the SSDF is not meant to be destructive. The work they are
doing is just great and they are our best source of information about program's
playing strength.
If I see something wrong I just say it. And it does not happen often.
Christophe
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