Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 04:58:16 09/01/99
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On August 31, 1999 at 21:57:12, James T. Walker wrote: >I recently conducted a "Tournament" between Hiarcs 7.32 Fritz 5.32 & Junior 5.0. > With about 250 games played by each program the results left Hiarcs in first >place with Fritz in second and Junior in third. Then I accidently transferred >20 games of Blitz (5/0) of Hiarcs vs Comet B05 which Hiarcs won >19.5 - 0.5. The Strange thing is after adding these 20 games and recomputing >the ELO (Fritz GUI does this) Hiarcs fell from 1st place to 3rd place?? Does >this make sense? Help! >Jim Walker It probably uses the rating of the opponent since with just 3 players there is _no_ way to get any sort of reasonable rating anyway... It probably considered comet significantly weaker and had a lower rating for it. And the TPR rating then killed the calculations.
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