Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 20:28:10 11/12/04
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On November 12, 2004 at 22:56:13, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 12, 2004 at 22:39:00, Steven Edwards wrote: >>Symbolic, now on nearly 24/7, takes on all established, non-freeweek opponents >>in rated competition with the only restriction being that the opponent rating be >>no less that 600 Elo lower. > >Is not it a bit asymmetrical formula when there is not also no more than 600 elo >higher? > >I guess that practically you do not play players who are more than 600 elo >higher but the formula is still not symmetric. Symbolic gets rather busy at times and so my idea was to ration processor time for those opponents who would have at least a slight chance of winning or drawing. I note that a number of other computer players on ICC have similar lower bounds that are more restrictive (Elo margins of 200 or 400). I have no problem with these as I assume that their operators also want to help allocate time towards those opponents that have reasonable winning chances.
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