Author: J. C. Boco
Date: 12:27:23 11/01/01
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On November 01, 2001 at 13:15:14, John Merlino wrote: >On November 01, 2001 at 10:53:58, Kevin Stafford wrote: > >>I'd be willing to bet that chessmaster has poured the most time and resources >>into attempting to make their program accurate with repspect to its Elo ratings, >>but I doubt that even they are very accurate. I'm not sure how possible this is >>given that the program has to run on so many different levels of hardware. I'm >>afraid the only accurate way to determine your rating is to do it the hard way; >>earn it in a club or tournament by playing rated games. >> >>-Kevin > >I can clarify this a bit. Yes, we have poured quite a bit of time and resources >into the problem. And, yes, given all the different hardware and personality and >time control combinations, it is pretty much impossible to be reasonably >accurate with respect to, for example, a USCF rating. > >However, I can say with reasonable certainty that if you play enough (i.e. at >least 50-100) rated games on Chessmaster, at ONE SPECIFIC time control and on >the same machine, then your rating will probably be within 100 points of your >supposed USCF rating. > >That's just my educated opinion, > >jm Good point. As long as you play the same time controls and don't upgrade your computer, the personalities will be stable. It seems reasonable that even though a personality is rated 1500, if you got a faster processor it (the personality) would be stronger.
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