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Subject: Re: Does anyone know the approximate conversion of SSDF ratings to FIDE

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 19:47:01 10/03/05

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On October 03, 2005 at 16:50:24, chandler yergin wrote:

>On October 03, 2005 at 16:25:25, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On October 03, 2005 at 16:20:59, Gerald Grimsley wrote:
>>
>>>Somewhere a few years ago I saw some "formula" for that based on the limited
>>>number of human-computer games.
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>Gerald
>>
>>I think the "approximate" conversion is 1:1
>>
>>Joachim
>
>There are ELO's for Humans, and ELO's for Computers.

I think your statement's mostly true. Except that in the case of the SSDF list,
they had some humans play some computers sometime in the past. So there's a
(weak) bridge between the two pools of players (and their ratings).

Michael



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