Author: Thom Perry
Date: 05:12:57 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 08:07:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On January 29, 1999 at 02:18:03, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>As predicted we have new number one and even number two. >>In list H7 has 2576 and F5.32 2575. But Hiarcs 6 and Fritz5 had over 2580, when >>they got first rating so where is the progress?? Nowhere I fear. > >Hi Jouni: >Pêrhaps you forget that Elo ratings is a RELATIVE score measured inside a pool >of participants. So, you can get better in absolute chessic terms and even so to >get a lower score if the competence gets better also and so you get less points >from them. Precisely because this last happens, you see an slower rate of score >improvement. Paradozicaly, this is a show of how much average top programas has >improved. >Fernando That's a most interesting observation, and probably correct.
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