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Subject: Re: Hydra 3000?

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 22:23:08 06/23/05

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On June 24, 2005 at 01:19:48, Amir wrote:

>On June 24, 2005 at 01:13:31, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 2005 at 00:56:57, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On June 24, 2005 at 00:33:45, Amir wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 24, 2005 at 00:25:03, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 24, 2005 at 00:06:37, Amir wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On June 23, 2005 at 23:45:59, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On June 23, 2005 at 19:56:17, Amir wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>With what score Hydra would have to be beat Adams to have 3000 performance
>>>>>>>>rating? (if it's even possible at all). Hydra also played a match against Evgeny
>>>>>>>>Vladimirov. What was Hydra's performance rating in that match?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Can we calculate Hydra's FIDE rating from these two matches against humans?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>No you can't calculate Hydras' rating FIDE or otherwise on so few games and get
>>>>>>>anything meaningful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can calculate performance rating of the players in the match or tournament.
>>>>>>You can also probably calculate provisional FIDE rating. After this match, Hydra
>>>>>>will have at least 13 games against FIDE rated players.
>>>>>
>>>>>Then why ask the question...the part in brackets? Also, you can't get a
>>>>>meaningful performance rating or FIDE or whatever and now I'm wasting my time on
>>>>>you repeating myself!
>>>>>
>>>>>Would you like me to answer it again?? Are you trying to be annoying??
>>>>>
>>>>>Or are just trolling like I stated before?
>>>>
>>>>"Performance" ratings are not "meaningful" but you can still calculate them for
>>>>a match or tournament. My question was very clear: with what score Hydra will
>>>>have to beat Adams to get close to 3000 performance rating in *this* match. The
>>>>question was not about "meaning" but of math. If anyone knows how to calculate
>>>>performance rating, he can  answer my question, regardless how meaningless the
>>>>answer is.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hydra needs to score exactly 4.92 points out of 6 games to get performance of
>>>3000.
>>>
>>>I used the following site to calculate performance
>>>
>>>http://www.uschess.org/ratings/calculator.html
>>>
>>>I printed 6 times 2737(Adams rating) and changed the total score until I got
>>>exactly 3000 after clicking performance.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>That would be 3000 USCF performance, yes? FIDE would be about 50-100pts. lower.
>
>Why? Is the formula to calculate performance rating in the tournament different?
>If not, Adams FIDE rating (2737) was entered in the calculator, not his USCF
>rating.

They use a different formula. Frankly I really don't care.



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