Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 18:20:35 08/03/98
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> >And since the SSDF numbers are not normalized >to any standard rating base (FIDE, USCF, BCF, etc) there is no way to take a >number like 2573 and say that equates to GM in FIDE... > Wrong - they are normalized: "However, if all computers are only tested against other computers, all we get is a relative rating that is just valid among those computers. Therefore, SSDF has played several hundred games between computers and human players in serious tournaments and used these results to set a "correct" absolute level for the rating list according to Swedish conditions. Different national rating systems are not completely in accordance though, and that has to be taken into account when reading our list. For instance, US ratings seems to lie approximately 50 points above the corresponding Swedish ratings (maybe more when below 2000 and less on the other side of the scale). For ourselves we obviously use the Swedish scale." Direct quote from SSDF homepage... Jouni
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