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Subject: Re: Rating

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 05:30:55 01/19/06

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On January 19, 2006 at 08:11:54, M Hurd wrote:

>If you play an engine match of 1000 games against 1 engine and play another
>match of 1 game each against 1000 engines, would you get the same rating ?
>
>Is it more important to play as many different engines as possible or just
>number of games played.

Depends on what your are trying to measure. Relative strength to one particular
engine or general strength against engines in general.

>
>Presumably there will be an optimum number for games and number of engines
>played.

Theoretically, the optimal number approaches infinity in both cases. Naturally,
this has virtually no practical value. You will need to be more specific to get
a more useable response.

>
>Regards
>
>Mike



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