Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 07:07:14 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 Yes. I've noticed this too. A few weeks ago mine got up to 2328, before falling back fairly quickly. I spent a *lot* of time trying to find the problem before deciding that it just got lucky, beating a few strong players (including a GM! :-) in consecutive games. Its current rating of about 2030-ish is probably far more accurate. Andrew
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