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Subject: Re: GM improvement vs Program improvement

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 12:23:06 02/22/02

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I agree with you Albert, just look at my posting below re: ELO ect...
Until a more formal absolute rating system is discovered, mandated, ect., then
we only have estimates of peoples or programs playing strength relative to each
other. At this time, it is not like scoreing  a paper on mathematics, it is just
a by guess and by golly system or it looks like it should be this.
Take for an anology: Suppose that a programmer finds a really deep error in a
champions playing strength and builds it into his program. He beats the GM in
almost every game, but then other program which do not play to that weakness are
able to beat his program more often than not. How would you calculate ratings?
In other words program A beats Player B, but Program C beats Program A and does
not have a chance against Player B.
Life is full of inconsistencys
Bill



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