Author: Gregor Overney
Date: 22:20:54 09/06/01
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Ratings on ICC and FICS are just numbers. They are pretty meaningless. Otherwise, one should not find ratings above 2500 for most chess programs. By selecting your opponents you can easily push up your rating. Just configure your noplay-list accordingly to avoid playing against "rating spoilers". Actually, looking at chessd and the older FICS code, you can find the C source that determines rating factors. Since the source for FICS and chessd falls under the GNU public license you can get the source without problems to see how rating is really calculated on FICS. Maybe ICC is using a different approach than FICS but your example proofs that it is also flawed. One thing that really distrubed me when playing on FICS, is that some chess engines refuse to play against players with a lower rating (for instance, less than 2000). (They are doing this by setting assessdraw, assessloss and assesswin. I would really like to see this removed from FICS.) Gregor
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