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Subject: Re: Inflationary Effects?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:53:14 07/10/03

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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.
>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.

I do not think that there is an inflation in rating points in the ssdf list.
The rating of old programs does not become higher.

If people who know something about the ssdf list claim that there is inflation
in the ssdf list then it is clear that they mean to inflation in terms of
percentage because the ssdf rating of old program is based on games against
humans and the rating of these programs does not become higher(the opposite and
the ssdf decided to reduce the rating of all programs by 100 elo some years
ago).

Uri



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