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Subject: Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 04:44:18 03/20/02

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On March 20, 2002 at 05:49:56, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On March 20, 2002 at 05:47:28, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>The worst would have to be about 0 elo.
>
>No. ELO is a relative scale. You can have ELO ratings from -inf to +inf
>if you want to.
>
>--
>GCP

Of cause you can't _actually_ reach +-inf, for several reasons.

It would take an infinite number of games, which would require an infinite amout
of time.
And even the perfect player must be rated below +inf because chess is limited
yada yada yada random player etc....

However, it seems a deterministic engine could lose _all_ the games, simply by
playing another deterministic engine, which just happend to win that particular
game.

-S.

• Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Miguel A. Ballicora 09:49:54 03/20/02
  • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Pat King 14:55:59 03/21/02
  • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Sune Fischer 10:50:47 03/20/02
    • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Gian-Carlo Pascutto 10:58:35 03/20/02
      • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Sune Fischer 11:07:18 03/20/02
        • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Dann Corbit 11:54:22 03/20/02
          • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Sune Fischer 12:29:29 03/20/02
            • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Dann Corbit 12:40:18 03/20/02
              • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Sune Fischer 12:50:51 03/20/02
• Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Gian-Carlo Pascutto 05:14:30 03/20/02
  • Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko Sune Fischer 09:38:08 03/20/02

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