Author: James T. Walker
Date: 17:36:14 09/01/99
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On September 01, 1999 at 20:29:16, Peter Fendrich wrote: >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 > >The only reason (except bugs) is that Comet was set an initial rating much lower >than the others. >BTW, playing with so few opponents will not get you accurate ELO figures. >More games within the same small group will only make the figures more precisely >inaccurate ... :-) >//Peter Hello Peter, I suspect it's a bug. See my post below Bob's. Chessbase claims to start with a 2400 elo for all players, then do a TPR and then redo the rating. I don't understand how they can assume all players start as 2400 but when finished, all players end up with less than 2400 rating?? Jim Walker
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