Author: William H Rogers
Date: 13:13:28 01/22/03
After looking at the different chess rating levels I have come to the conclusion that they are in want. Some of them start at 1,000 elo and some start at 1,200 elo while in europe some start as low as 800 elo. If the regular charts are extended downward, that is below 'E' level, you can break it up into much lower segaments all to way down to 0-200 for the lowest level. It seems to me that some begining players might get real discouraged by having their ratings go lower and lower until a true level is found. What I propose to do is recreate a lowest level chess program, that is it will contain no chess knowledge and make completely random moves, but it will play completely legal chess. It will only search one ply, have no knowlege of center control, no books, etc. It will not have any qsearch or things of that nature. What king of rating will it have. I guess I will assign it a rating of 100 points as a starting level. Then with each successive piece of knowledge I will try to rate the newest versions, until I have a pretty broad range of chess machines. Once I have completed these basic programs I will open them up for human beginers for a series of games. I will need some software to keep track of each player and be able to compute a provisional rating for them. I do not, however, wish to lower the first programs rating below 100 points. I think that eventually we will come up with a truer elo system for all players based upon the just knowing how to play begining chess. I don't know where they designers got their information when they set up the standards that are used today, for all I know they might have started with something similar, but I think that my way of doing it will show a true knowledge of chess based upon the easiest legal level of playing. Any feed back for you more experienced player will be greately appreciated. Thanks Bill
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