Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 05:14:30 03/20/02
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On March 20, 2002 at 07:44:18, Sune Fischer wrote: >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.... This is true if everything is calibrated to the same reference. However, there's no reason this has to be true (and in practise, it's often problematic to relate to the reference). If can choose my reference as low as I want it to. (Whether or not that allows me to to reach -inf, err, I don't want to think about :) -- GCP
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