Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:43:53 04/28/01
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On April 28, 2001 at 09:10:42, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> Your data suggest that there is no evidence for diminshing >> return in the nunn2 match at small depthes. > >The diminishing "returns" are already built in into the fixed ELO >difference. Namely, the ELO difference (dE) formula: > > dE=400*log(p/(1-p)) > >gives: > > p=1/[1+10^(-dE/400)] > >which means that for the fixed steps of increasing dE the >corresponding 'win percentage' (p) steps become exponentially >small with number of dE steps. I meant to diminishing returns in rating and not to diminishing returns in p. Uri
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