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Subject: Re: Elo Adjusted for you

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 11:39:24 12/08/05

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On December 08, 2005 at 09:05:23, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>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.

What the x and a and c2 and a2 represent?

And how exactly is the formula? I mean what is the x(a-c2)-3x(a2) mean?

Also what "over 3.1285" means?


>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.

How did you come up with this?


>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) ).

How did you come with 96?
Also what is the formula you are talking about and how is derived?


>However, that changes not too much.
>Kind regards
>Bernhard



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