Author: Jon Dart
Date: 19:35:22 11/17/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 19:14:21, Christophe Theron wrote: > >You should just stop relying on ICC ratings. Christophe's advice is good. I am somewhat influenced by watching Arasan play online and sometimes am convinced that some recent change has made it worse. But ratings are a highly imperfect measure, subject to short-term fluctuations, and also easily distorted by the nature of the opponents you're matching, and other factors. Test suites are also imperfect but have the advantage of giving you objective, repeatable numbers. So I rely on those more. Another thing you can try is running your own tournament offline against other programs. If you have a spare machine and can run it 24 hours for a few days, you could accumulate several hundred games, enough to get an idea of your program's strength against its opponent. --Jon
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