Author: William H Rogers
Date: 13:34:40 02/22/02
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On February 22, 2002 at 15:18:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 22, 2002 at 15:13:25, William H Rogers wrote: > >>Now I am currious. Is Crafty really rated that high or was its opponents not >>rated low enough? This is not a slur to Dr Hyatts Crafty, we all know that it >>plays great chess, but maybe instead of raising a players rating, they should >>consider lowering an opponents rating as to not exceed the possible max(i.e. >>3300). I think that would bring a much more resonable response to all players, >>except of course, those whose ratings were forced to be lower. >>Food for thought anyway. > >If a program always wins and never loses, it could rise very far above 3300. If >they put a lid on the score of 3300, then that will simply push the others down. >For example, if a program got to 3800 and everyone became aghast, they could >simply drop 500 points from the ELO figure. Of course, someone who used to be >2500 has now suddenly got an ELO figure of 2000. I don't know if that will make >them happy. >;0 That was my whole point Dan. Maybe we should set a ceiling and then downgrade everyones elses scores. At first they would all be mad I am sure, but then when they looked at everyones elses scores it should ease the pain. At the current rate of play the elo's could possibly reach 4 or 5 thousand and that does not sound realistic. :~)
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