Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Inflationary Effects?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 04:53:01 07/10/03

Go up one level in this thread


On July 10, 2003 at 06:29:10, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On July 10, 2003 at 02:19:15, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>If the rating is inflated by 10 % then the difference between 2 ratings is also
>>inflated by 10%
>>
>
>It is the first time I read about rating inflation in terms of percentage, which
>does not make any sense.
>Usually, it is spoken of rating inflation or deflation simply in rating points
>(like inflation of 40 points, for example), which makes sense.

Could be. My guess however was that higher ratings get more inflated than lower
ratings. I don't know if that's correct, it just seem logic. Come to think of
it, it seems more logic the different way around. I feel a headache coming up :(

Tony


>Now, wheter there is inflation in the SSDF list, or in the FIDE list, or if SSDF
>inflates faster than FIDE (due to a much higher number of games played in the
>same time period), I do not know, those are difficult questions.
>José.
>
>>This shouldn't be to difficult to check. A rating difference of 40 points should
>>give a certain winpercentage. Did Shredder get this winpercentage ? Or did it
>>only get the winpercentage against 200 points lower rated opponents ?
>>
>>Tony
>>



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.