Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 10:18:43 10/04/99
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On October 04, 1999 at 08:06:42, Luis E. Cabral M. wrote: >Recently I read that the rating of Sapphire is 2112 SSDF, However, I discovered >it's around 2420 USCF. Also 210 BCF which converted to ELO is around 2220. > >Finally, I heard it's also around 2170 ELO in Germany and Italy. >I'm getting cracy with all these ratings. I've never seen the 2420 USCF rating. Where did you see that? In my experience this is far too high, even for G/30 or blitz games. >In the Komputer Korner I read it's near IM strength and one of the strongest >portable and because of its rating can beat one of the leading table top >computer. It is the strongest portable, especially for endgames because it is the only portable which has a hash table. (It is exactly the same hardware and program as Novag's top-of-the-line tabletop, the Diamond II. In fact, Novag's high end wooden board/auto sensory offering is simply their Universal Chessboard bundled with the Sapphire II.) Only Novag marketing might claim IM strength. ;) It is not the user-friendliest portable, since it is calculator style instead of sensory. Great training for blindfold games and visualization though... >Which the exactly strength.? I run SapphireII on FICS (mostly at 2 1, 5 0, and 15 0). It maintains a rating around 2100 in each of the lightning, blitz and standard rating categories, just to add one more rating to your confusion. :) This is based on over 5000 games, certainly more than were played in the SSDF, US, British, German, or Italian rating pools. There aren't any other dedicated computers playing on the servers, which makes comparing ratings between rating pools difficult. The mean and standard deviation for the FICS blitz pool is currently 1532 +/- 286 (2022 +/- 500 for just the computers). >Thanks for your help. > >Luis Hope this helps, Ian
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