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Subject: Re: Elo Adjusted for you

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 06:05:23 12/08/05

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On December 08, 2005 at 08:53:06, K. Burcham wrote:

>On December 08, 2005 at 08:01:05, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>Rybka still trails Fruitz 2.2.1 by 21 Elo even though it beat Fruit by 27 Elo in
>>head to head match.  Rybkas main defeat so far came at the hands of Fritz 8.
>>All my games are run with each program haveing their own cpu/book (except Rybka
>>plays without book) and ponder on.Rybka is a great program but should have it's
>>own "official" book.
>>Jim
>
>with no book, it has been stated many times here that one must take the square
>root of pi, divided by x(a-c2)-3x(a2)over 3.1285. Once this value is applied to
>your results you will see that Rybka has an Elo of 2875 and leads your Fritz 8
>by 22 games. Of course Uri will adjust this just a little when playing two
>programs, one with book and one without.
>
>kburcham

Actually your formula is only an approximation, though I have too agree, a good
one. The true value is not 3.1285 but square_root( square_root(96) ).
However, that changes not too much.
Kind regards
Bernhard



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