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Subject: Good Point, Fernando!

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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