Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 17:54:49 09/01/99
Go up one level in this thread
On September 01, 1999 at 20:36:14, James T. Walker wrote: >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 That's strange... The Comet rating must have increased after that match due to the fact that Hiarcs rating decreased. If the mean rating was 2400 before the Comet games and below 2400 after, that's another indication of that Comet initially got very low rating. //Peter
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.