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Subject: Re: an idea for an experiment about rating

Author: Daniel Pineo

Date: 06:56:51 04/08/05

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On April 08, 2005 at 01:45:47, Stephen A. Boak wrote:

>On April 07, 2005 at 11:29:03, Daniel Pineo wrote:
>
>>On April 06, 2005 at 19:58:17, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>take a chess program.
>>>
>>>Your target is to find the difference in  rating between the program and a
>>>program that plays random moves.
>>
>>That's actually a good way to define an elo system that isn't strictly relative
>>like the one we have now.
>
>Good way to define an elo system??  Could there be any _worse_ way? !!
>
>[I guess there could.  The baseline program may be one that intentionally makes
>as many losing moves as possible (plays 'give away' or 'Loser's' chess variant;
>enables Helpmates wherever possible).]
>
>Time to study some important books (Elo description, and general theory of
>statistics).
>
>Good luck to you and Uri!  And a whole lot of time!  I think both of you will
>need the 'help'.

<snip>

You missed the point.  No matter, it's not important.



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