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Subject: Re: Rating

Author: M Hurd

Date: 05:36:03 01/19/06

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On January 19, 2006 at 08:30:55, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>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


Hi Ricardo

I was simply wondering what would likely be the ELO difference between the 2
matches I outlined and which match would be the more accurate.

Regards

Mike




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