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Subject: Re: Tiger or Pussycat: ChessTiger 14 vs. Junior 7

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 03:13:31 07/10/01

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On July 10, 2001 at 05:49:39, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 10, 2001 at 05:02:35, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>
>>>BTW the first round of the match is completed now. ChessTiger 14 reached very
>>>good 61.5 %. Could someone
>>>please calculate, how much ELO difference 61.5 % mean compared to the average
>>>ELO of the opponents?
>>>Thanks a lot!
>>
>>That means a +92 Elo difference
>
>
>Sorry Vincent, but this is not right.
>
>A 61.5% winning percentage means approximately a 80.5 Elo points difference.


Thanks for the info Christophe.
This is a very good result, and I doubt that GambitTiger will come close to it,
but let's see. :-)


>The rule of thumb is very simple: take the winning percentage, substract 50,
>then multiply by 7.
>
>This rule is an approximation (but a very good one) that works only in the range
>20% to 80%.
>
>    Christophe



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