Author: David Dahlem
Date: 17:30:56 06/16/04
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On June 16, 2004 at 18:59:55, Mike Byrne wrote: >On June 16, 2004 at 17:27:17, Andrei P wrote: > >>has anybody tried to astimate top engine ratings vs humans by discarding the >>drawn games from the analysis and looking only at the decisive games? > > >I don't understand the objective why one would want to do that. The way ELO >ratings were defined by Dr. Elo, you would always factor drawn games in. His >methodology does not allow for discarding drawn games. Therfore, ratings >without drawn games would be without the same statistical significance as >developed under his system. Didn't Fischer once propose a championship match system whereby only wins counted, the first player to win a specified number of games declared the match winner? This is not really responsive to the posters question, i just thought i'd throw it in. :-) Regards Dave
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