Author: James T. Walker
Date: 14:29:21 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 15:12:24, J. C. Boco wrote: >What a beautiful machine. I just got it today and have already started to fool >around with it. > >My question is about the rating system build into this computer. > >Whenever I resign a game to be rated, my rating goes up. >Whenever I allow myself to be checkmated, my rating goes up. > >I lost 10 quick games, and my rating went from 1400 to about 1920. > >When I am checkmated, I push the keys *2'nd option* then *rating* then *pawn* to >enter the result, and the rating goes up. > >When I resign, I push the keys *2'nd option* then *rating* then *bishop* to >resign the game and have it rated, and the rating goes up. > >Does anyone's star diamond malfunction in this way? Does yours work correctly? > >I'm playing 40moves in 10 minutes, but allow myself to be mated or I resign >after the computer leaves its opening book. I don't own one so I can only guess for a reason. First of all, Chessmaster will do the same thing if you are playing the ChessMaster personality I believe. If they are using a simple formula for rating you will end up about 400 points below the rating of the player you are playing even if you lose 90% of the time. In ChessMaster of course you can play a 1500 rated personality and when you lose your rating will go down and when you win your rating will go up like normal. Meaning that if you play personalities near your actual rating it will act very normal. If you play ChessMaster which is rated at 2800 and you lose you may get a 2400 rating at first. Again this is because of the simple formula used. (I think) Jim
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