Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:19:24 12/14/98
Hi all, As someone asked how many human games were considered in his list and so on Eric answered me as follows (quoted, some insignificant sentences concerning this thread are left out): QUOTE ON ============================================================================ For example, Hiarcs6 Pentium Pro has 2503 v humans from 18 games. If it were to play 6 more games v humans for, say, a 2540 rating, those 2 figures would be added, the program would recalculate the Hiarcs rating v humans, adjust the overall list a little up or down, depending whether it considered the result 'good' or 'bad' (i.e "the computers are better than I'd previously calculated, or worse"), and adjust the Hiarcs rating in accordance with the new figures. As Hiarcs is rated at 2575 on my list, the likely result would be a small drop on the overall ratings (2540 is a little worse than the H6 2575), and a slightly bigger drop for H6 itself, but the program works all that out for me! Unfortunately the program does not keep in a database the individual results, human opposition etc. It just stores the 2503 and 18 figures, or the 2512 and 24 after the theoretical addition above. Chessmaster 6000 will get a rating if and when I have a sufficient number of reliable/trustworthy results at suitable time controls to enable a realistic rating to be calculated. Unfortunately very few programmers send me programs free (I am not as important as the SSDF), so I have to buy my own mostly, to do any testing of my own. I have recently purchased .... and hope to buy Genius6, but probably not Chessmaster 6000. ============================================================================= QUOTE OFF
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