Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:38:21 06/01/04
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On June 01, 2004 at 05:52:26, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On May 31, 2004 at 20:37:19, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On May 31, 2004 at 19:27:20, Jonathan Lee wrote: >> >>>In the ICD chess software, the engines surpass 2750 and going over 2800 at 1.2 >>>GHZ? >>>How high can the Swedish rating system, SSDF, can it go? >>> >>>FIDE's and USCF's highest are 3000. >>>I learned later that ELO perhaps can go over 8000 (that would be somthing like >>>50+ ply for ELO). >>>Jonathan >> >>Without knowledge of the rating population, the absolute value of any ELO is >>valueless. The way SSDF is designed, a fixed pool of computer programs >>generally running and rated on older hardware with the new blood coming in on >>faster hardware with more modern programs - there is only one for the ratings to >>go and that is up. They have bad case of what I call the "Bloodgood" effect >>with the limited rating pool. > >Very true. SSDF and other computer rating lists are highly inflationary. >You can't compare it with FIDE rating system at all. > >There is not only a different pool of players. > >Chessbase of course is not unhappy with the present state. >After all the ratings are a good sales argument. > >Michael I do not think it is a good sales argument. Most players do not care much about the exact rating against humans when the program is better than them. They may prefer a better program to analyze games but the only important thing is the relative rating between programs. I believe that the same will buy chess programs even if the rating of every program was lower by 300 elo than the ssdf list. Uri
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