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Subject: Re: Hydra 3000?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:42:35 06/24/05

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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

Hello Uri,
Since Hydra cannot score 4.92 points that figure is not important.  If you plug
4.5 into the program you get a performance rating of 2928.  If you use 5 points
out of 6 you get a performance rating of 3017.  There is nothing wrong with
either of these calculations that I can see.
Jim



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