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Subject: Re: Shredder 7.04 too agressive ?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 09:06:40 05/30/03

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On May 30, 2003 at 08:32:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>(...)

>Rating of computers is simply meaningless when players are allowed to change
>software and hardware and are allowed to have formulas not to play against
>opponents that they do not like to play against them.
>
>I think that it may be better if all the games in chess server will be unrated.

I think computer account ratings are ok when you don't see them as ratings for a
specific engine (which they aren't). It depends on the user if it's a mix of
various hard/software, or the same engine on the same pc always. Basically, the
computer server elo reflects the true (!) success of the *account* among all
other accounts on that server.

Some people probably see it as a hardware & user skills competion. Which engine
should "noplay" which, what settings are more successfull, etc.

Made for fun.

Regards,
Mike Scheidl




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