Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 11:07:18 03/20/02
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On March 20, 2002 at 13:58:35, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On March 20, 2002 at 13:50:47, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>It is not the limit, chess is finite so you can never reach an infinite elo >>because you simply can't win them all. > >This was refuted earlier in the thread, i.e. in the case >of deterministic players. (like chessprograms!) Not really, see there was a trap built into it :) They are in fact playing the _same_ game over and over, so it should only counts as one I think :) Anyway, thought about the limited set, and I figure, that if A beats B 2 out of 2 games, and B has a rating of 1500, then we should give A a rating that would give A a 50% chance of scoring 2 of 2 against B, this is all we can really say since we have no idea of how the third game will end. This means A should have probability 0.7071 of a win. I don't have the formula in front of me, but it's probably something like 1650. But hey, I'm not a mathematician, so I could be wrong :) -S. >-- >GCP
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