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Subject: Re: How Are Computer ICC Ratings Compared to Elo Rating?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:52:30 11/14/98

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On November 14, 1998 at 17:42:04, odell hall wrote:

>HI CCC
>
>
>  Has anyone done a study correlating Icc rating with elo rating?. If my Program
>for instance achieves a rating of 2400 at standard on Icc, could I say with
>assurance that it is atleast 2350 elo? Would My 2400 rating be more accurate
>than the SSDF rating since many of the games are against Humans?

Do "help survey" on ICC to see someone's attempt to correlate ICC and USCF and
FIDE ratings.

I think the ratings are more or less random for computers.  They jump up and
down a lot and they can vary according to time controls, and who you choose to
play.

There aren't many humans at the upper end of the rating scale in standard, and
those that do exist often turn out to be computers anyway.

If someone was running something on a > 300 mhz machine, and tended to stick
around 2400 in standard, I'd guess they were either pretty unlucky, an
inexperienced operator, or not running one of the better programs.

bruce



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