Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:48:49 04/17/02
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A given computer's rating will go down significantly (even though it does not gain or lose one iota of strength objectively) if and when its human opponents gain anti-computer skills. Does that make sense? I guess early ratings are one thing and ACTUAL STRENGTH is a different thing that is much harder to measure (requiring much more scientifically controlled circumstances). For humans versus humans, the two things (rating and actual strength) have tradionally been closely related, except when the player is a young child who is improving very rapidly. There is significant reason to believe that RATING and actual STRENGTH can get *way* out of sync with each other when it comes to computers, due to the extreme relevance of the anti-computer skills (and not normal chess skills) of the humans they have faced.
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