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Subject: Re: What ELO is perfect chess?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:18:45 02/22/02

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On February 22, 2002 at 17:14:56, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>On February 22, 2002 at 17:07:34, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>On February 22, 2002 at 17:03:57, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>>>You missunderstand completly what the elo formula is:1.there are no negative
>>>ratings.
>>Why not?  Can you explain the lack of these negative ratings using the field of
>>analysis?  And would that be complex analysis or numerical analysis or some
>>completely unrelated field of analysis?
>>
>>>2.A rating of 1000 elo (forexample) in Novice level).You should read
>>>some
>>>of the original papres by ELo on his System.Can I help?
>>
>>I've got them actually.  Here is a program I wrote to calculate ELO USCF:
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/tournament_software/USCF.C
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/tournament_software/USCF.H
>>
>>HTH
>In reality there are many negative quantities in both numerical and Complex
>analysis(and PDE,s) .

So you do Partial Differential Equations?  Sounds like Numerical Analsys then
--same as me!  Do you try to solve numerically or analytically?

What is your favorite method of solution for a stiff equation over many
variables?

>Although the Cauchy integral formula was the first thing
>that came to my mind when you said."Complex analysis" ,but I dont think Elo
>alowed negative numbers in his System

That's funny, I get them all the time.  But it must be something wrong with my
math.



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