Author: stuart taylor
Date: 09:49:40 03/19/02
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On March 19, 2002 at 10:29:35, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Hi > >On March 19, 2002 at 10:11:28, stuart taylor wrote: > >[snip] > >> And, if you should say that ultimate chess is about 4,000 elo, then I would >>want my above mentioned idea of a program to max out at around 3500-3600 elo. > >The ELO system can't be used at all to measure "absolute strength". ELO is a >system to get an idea about the relative strength of some chess-playing entities >in a pool. This has _nothing_ to do with absolute strength. It's useless to >attach 4000 (or any other number) to "perfect play". It's like measuring the >speed of cars in kilograms... > >Sargon I thought it was atleast loosely connected universally, i.e. that one group in some place having a tournament for beginners wouldn't start them all off with a basis of 2500 elo, but would start them off according to standard guidlines. Absolute perfection should obviously fall somewhere between 3-4000 elo if calibrated with most of the world. Calibrating human to computer elo would need some thought too. S.Taylor
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