Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 14:53:25 03/19/02
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Hi On March 19, 2002 at 12:52:13, Sune Fischer wrote: [snip] >The elo system can handle any result you throw at it AFAIK. Well yes, but it's designed to determine relative strengths between players. And they should be somewhat close rating-wise. The exact formulas vary a bit from country to country (well ok, FIDE is more standardized :p) but basically you don't get any ELO points if you're - say - 750 points better than the rest in your pool of chess players. Therefore the best player couldn't get more points than 2850+750 ELO, even when beating Kasparov each time. >What needs to be defined is "perfect play". For instance will the perfect >player just pick the moves random from those that lead to the draw, like an >engine with no evaluation other than the score for win/draw/lose, or will he >always choose the longest most complicated game possible (like swindle mode). The perfect player doesn't need swindle mode, he/she/it just beats you and me (and Kasparov) no matter what. :p According to my definition a perfect player knows that the opening position is mate in X, mated in X or draw. Stuff like swindling mode are beyond it. Sargon
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