Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:01:09 07/31/98
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On July 31, 1998 at 09:26:14, John Scalo wrote: >I've recently gotten my little engine up on ICC (Frankenstein) and I'm wondering >what kind of rating swings are normal. A few days ago I watched in >disappointment as the rating dropped more than 200 points and figured one of the >minor changes I made wasn't so minor. But now it's slowly climbing back up. > >For those of you who have computer accounts on ICC, do you see such wild swings? > >Thanks, >John 200 is probably the normal "swing"... for several reasons... If you only play humans, you won't see that wide a swing probably... but if you play computers there are interesting problems... old programs on new hardware are much stronger, etc. So you can get a program with a 2400 rating that is really much stronger than that, but hasn't caught up.. and it may catch up at your expense.. :) You can also get burned when a human finds a hole and tears into it repeatedly, but that lessens as you improve things... (hopefully)
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