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Subject: Re: Estimated Human Playing Strength

Author: Dr. Franklin

Date: 21:49:42 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
]


 I think you are probally Correct here John.



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