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Subject: Re: Under 2600 Club update

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 01:18:43 12/09/98

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On December 09, 1998 at 01:34:58, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On December 08, 1998 at 20:39:44, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>We've had a good response to this idea, thanks to all who posted and emailed.  I
>>still haven't heard from a couple of you, but I'll keep you on there until I
>>hear otherwise.  So far, no one has opted out.
>>
>>First congratulations are in order for Rival, who has posted the highest
>>increase for this period.  And Hossa must have been working on his evaluation :)
>>
>>Will
>
>These are all playing on ICC or some such?  If so I would expect to see rating
>fluctuations in excess of 200 points.
>
>Another thing is that the time controls used by the program are very important
>in establishing rating.  If an automatic program only plays 5 0 against humans
>it will be rated higher than a program that plays 2 12 against humans, and
>almost certainly higher than one that plays any time control against other
>computers.

Right, last week I made Hossa's formula more friendlier and the result was that
its rating went down from about 2350 to 2200.

Greetings,
Steffen.




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