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Subject: Re: positional/tactical rating

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 06:37:00 05/21/04

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On May 21, 2004 at 08:03:11, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>On May 21, 2004 at 06:10:29, Vasik Rajlich wrote:
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>>"positional rating" == actual rating - tactical rating
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>A tactical monster like Gothmog may have tactical rating of Elo 2750,
>and an actual rating of Elo 2600.
>Without some unlogical scalings, positional rating would be Elo -150. Right ?
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First of all Gothmog scores highly on testsuites in part due to its high king
safety weights.

But ok let's make the formula a little bit more intuitive:

positional rating = 2 * actual rating - tactical rating

The goal here is to avoid "positional testsuites" - those are a disaster ...

Vas

>/Matthias.



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