Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:35:51 07/10/03
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On July 10, 2003 at 08:25:58, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On July 10, 2003 at 07:53:14, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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 > >One problem is that those old programs are not tested any longer by the SSDF, as >far as I know. They are inactive in that rating pool. >Your claim sounds like stating that there is no inflation for FIDE ratings only >because Fischer's (and actually all the inactive and dead players') rating does >not get any higher. >José. I do not think that they are not tested ssdf tested palm tiger against old programs. I also remember that I read claims that the rating of active programs is becoming smaller and not higher. Uri
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