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Subject: Re: Please never ever play in WWW.WORLDCHESSNETWORK.COM

Author: Brian Kostick

Date: 15:40:29 11/23/02

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On November 23, 2002 at 14:39:02, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 23, 2002 at 13:45:44, Brian Kostick wrote:
>
>>On November 23, 2002 at 00:04:03, Mustafa wrote:
>>
>>>hi MY FRIEND I WAS PLAYING TODAY IN WCN JUST FOR FUN I WAS 2100+ BUT I SAID TO
>>>MYSELF LET US PLAY SOME GAMES FOR FUN AND LOSE I LOST GAMES AND REACHED SOON
>>>1000 THEN AN ADMIN CAME ONLINE AND HE SUSPENDED ME WHEN I ASKED WHY HE SAID ME U
>>>HAVE NO RIGHTS TO LOSE LIKE THAT U HAVE LOSE ON PURPOSE.BUT I DID NOT LOSE ON
>>>PURPOSE.SO WHAT I SUGGEST U ALL IF UR A MEMBER THERE NEVER BUY A GOLD MEMBERSHIP
>>>BECAUSE THEY BAN FOR NO REASON THEY SUSPEND FOR NO REASON THEY ARE TOTALLY MAD I
>>>PAID 43$ US FOR GOLD ACCOUNT BUT THEY SUSPENDED MY GOLD MEMBERSHIP JUST BECAUSE
>>>I LOST GAMES...........
>>
>>
>>I would like to question the part about losing, or gaining, +1100 points over a
>>few games. Is this the best the administration (or formula) can do? Seems to
>>unstable to me. Any thoughts?
>>
>>Regrads,
>>BK
>
>No
>
>It is clearly possible that some chess program get low rating and improve by
>1100 points because the programmer changed it from playing random move to
>something better.
>
>I think that a good rating system should allow change of 1100 points in few
>games.
>
>If 1500 program gets 8 out of 10 in a tournament when the average of the
>opponents is 2500 then it make sense to give the program 2600.
>
>Uri


Hi Uri,

  I agree with you when running a program, which could gain/lose strenght
overnight in code, or building a humans provisional rating. I had the impression
that it was person vs person games and their playing strenght should remain more
constant.

Regards,
BK



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