Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 17:47:15 06/16/04
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On June 16, 2004 at 20:30:56, David Dahlem wrote: >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 I actually like that for WC play. I read his question as a "rating" question, but for match play - first 10 wins can be very exciting (in my view).
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