Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 22:27:06 04/09/02
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On April 09, 2002 at 23:02:38, James T. Walker wrote: >"The most recent games have a far greater impact on the rating than the earlier >games. Do not be impressed by the large number 1200. It does not matter. 1200 is >the same 24 (or whatever it is nowadays to get an established rating)." > >I don't believe this is the case. I believe the Elo rating is computed by SSDF >the same way Chessbase/Fritz GUI does it for an entire database at one time. If >this is true then the last 24 games have no more effect than the first 24 games. > Someone from the SSDF can correct me if I'm wrong. If they did it the way you >suggest the ratings would fluctuate much more from month to month. >Jim This is plausible, since the a program (a particular version) does improve over time. At least if learning is disabled. After a few hundred games, the rating will not change very much anymore and the purpose of pairing it would be to produce ratings for newer programs using the older programs as a benchmark.
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