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Subject: Re: What ELO is perfect chess?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 13:54:46 02/22/02

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On February 22, 2002 at 16:40:03, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 22, 2002 at 16:37:27, John Merlino wrote:
>[snip]
>>Why is 4000 "less realistic" than 3000? It's just a number that is used to
>>determine RELATIVE strength between two or more players in a
>>game/tournament/pool.
>
>I think we should add one trillion points to everyone's ELO score.  Just think
>how happy the 950 players would be.
>;-)
>
>And the conversations would sound better for the lower ranked players.
>
>He: "What's your ELO?"
>She: "Over a trillion."
>He: "Same for me."

That's what they did for pinball machines.

                             Albert



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