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Subject: Re: What ELO is perfect chess?

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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