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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 15:12:17 08/01/02

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On August 01, 2002 at 16:18:17, John Merlino wrote:

>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

Let me guess. This won't happen (anymore) in Chessmaster ?

Tony




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