Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 07:16:33 06/01/04
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On June 01, 2004 at 06:38:21, Uri Blass wrote: >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. That´s Nonsense. They _care_ about the strength compared to the top human players. The number of players who buy a new program in order to play against it at full strength is negligible small anyway. > >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. No :) Michael > >Uri
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