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Subject: Re: Comet vs crafty

Author: ed

Date: 15:07:20 10/21/98

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On October 21, 1998 at 12:20:27, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On October 21, 1998 at 09:02:26, ed  wrote:
>
>>Should have read "closer" to even. Btw, a 60% score is only worth ~ 60 points.
>>Need 66% score for 100 points. But in any case, i agree with what bob said, a
>>small delta in CPU speed between comp-comp games can mean a *huge* diff in final
>>result, if not huge, certainly much more so than what one would expect.
>
>OK, I was wrong about 60% being 100 points.  I'm using the formula:
>
>    point delta = 500 * log(1/percentage - 1)
>
>K actually has nothing to do with this, by the way.
>
>If FIDE is doing something differently, then I'm totally wrong.
>
>But using this formula:
>
>60% is 70 points
>100 points is 65%
>
>bruce



FIDE uses TPR=(((win-loss)*400)/#games) + avg_rating
and the actual final rating change is about 1/5 or 1/3 of of the delta between
the TPR and the original rating (depending on the K).





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