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Subject: Re: Bug in CB8 and/or BigBase 2002 ?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:18:17 08/01/02

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On August 01, 2002 at 16:13:18, Gilles Garrigues wrote:

>Take BigBase 2002 (more than 2,000,000 games, compiled by ChessBase GmbH). Use
>ChessBase 8 to open it and click on "statistics".
>
>You end up with NEGATIVE average Elos for Black and White. The progress of the
>stats is OK until about game 1,700,000 where a sharp drop occurs (as if one or
>several games had huge negative Elos).
>
>Has someone a good explanation for that ?
>
>--
>Gilles Garrigues, Dunkerque, France

Signed vs. Unsigned integer. The highest bit of the integer is 1 when:

1,700,000 (games) * 2369 (average ELO) ~= 0xF000000

jm

• Re: Bug in CB8 and/or BigBase 2002 ? Gilles Garrigues 01:00:02 08/02/02
• Re: Bug in CB8 and/or BigBase 2002 ? Tony Werten 15:12:17 08/01/02
  • Re: Bug in CB8 and/or BigBase 2002 ? John Merlino 15:13:14 08/01/02
    • Re: Bug in CB8 and/or BigBase 2002 ? Tony Werten 15:18:43 08/01/02
      • Re: Bug in CB8 and/or BigBase 2002 ? John Merlino 15:31:12 08/01/02

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