Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:38:42 09/21/00
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On September 21, 2000 at 15:35:28, Ed Panek wrote: >On September 20, 2000 at 13:06:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 20, 2000 at 01:24:30, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>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"... >>> >>>But are You still claiming programs are NOT at GM level? >>>In reality they 100% sure are. >>> >>>Jouni >> >> >>100% sure based on what? 100% opinion? >> >>The crux is this: >> >>If a GM plays "normal chess" vs a computer, then the computer will do OK. > > Do you have any games comp. vs a GM where the GM played "Normal chess" to look >at? > >Ed Almost every GM vs comp game you find is "normal" for some reason. You will find _many_ more IM players are using anti-computer chess.
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