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Subject: Re: Star Diamond's battery life data and a guess as to its rating constant

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 06:22:09 03/10/04

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On March 10, 2004 at 08:29:58, J. C. Boco wrote:

>Oh, By the way, I'm a bad Class C player.  I have played 40 moves in 2 hours.  >I
>have set the computer to play mostly at 40 moves in 2 minutes, but sometimes it
>had up to 5 minutes and sometimes as low as 40 seconds.  My record:
>
>0 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
>Also interesting, if I use as a constant the number 100 in the Log equation
>determining playing strength for a computer (100 points per doubling), then
>based on the various time controls I have played my TPR for all these games
>would have been 1380, only about 35 points lower than my real USCF rating.

I think that's really a _very_ fine performance for a 1400 player against the
computer. Did you by chance save the moves of your two wins? It would be
interesting to be able to have a look at the games.

Peter



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