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Subject: Re: Reality check

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:38:33 11/02/99

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On November 02, 1999 at 17:08:44, Andrew Dados wrote:

>On November 02, 1999 at 16:56:40, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>>
>>>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>>>Blitz       2222         91    98     6   195   2293 (31-Aug-1999)
>>>Standard    2388        281   685   100  1066   2471 (11-Sep-1999)
>>>
>>
>>Think it over, do those numbers seem in any way reasonable? Especially when
>>compared to the green list.
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>                  Active Accounts -- 11/1/1999 10:48 PDT
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>ACCOUNT        BLITZ  R(mhz) |  WIN%  GP/WK  TGP  |  HIGH    LOW   ACTIVE
>>
>>MissSilicon     2734     74  |   62%     56  935  |  2734   2544    112
>>Talmoves        2695     59  |   35%    100 1673  |  2767   2473    112
>>PostModernist   2621     66  |   63%    143 2391  |  2706   2471    116
>>RedBear         2542     67  |   60%     30  503  |  2615   2375     71
>>Amateur         2518     79  |   49%     48  807  |  2529   2307    112
>>lambchop        2504    100  |   77%     10  176  |  2525   2430     35
>>ArasanX         2495     63  |   61%     34  578  |  2645   2432    112
>>inmichess       2488     58  |   41%      3   63  |  2488   2337     21
>>Grok            2481     57  |   63%      1   19  |  2517   2463      7
>>Hossa           2415     64  |   61%    462 7717  |  2525   2341    116
>>Galahadx        2356     54  |   68%     24   25  |  2356   2354      7
>>TheTao          2309     45  |   40%      5    5  |  2309   2309      0
>>cyclone         1872     19  |   77%    409  413  |  1982   1872      7
>>
>>
>>What do those numbers mean, especially in comparison to the previous rating?
>>I'll answer that, someting is not right.
>>
>>Regards Dan Andresson
>
> That's why I would put aside blitz rating and focus on 'standard' rating (note
>that for manual account switching between windows programs is way faster then
>switching between blitzin/dos box..). Over 1000 standard games can be
>meaningless... so can be 10 game match versus program which source is known and
>easy to tune against.


Please remember that it was a 80 games match, not 10.

Remember that Tiger played with a little outdated book. There is no tuning.




> But meaningfull for me is absence of Rebel/Tiger icc
>accounts, while there are quite a few fritz, Hiarcs and CM accounts.. operators
>have little faith or just hating to switch to dos?
>
>-Andrew-


We have been told so many times ICC ratings are lousy so I prefered to send my
program to several beta testers who play games directly.

These testers are well known and generally give very useful informations. This
was a key point as there was not much time left before the commercial release of
the product. We would not distribute a program that is a loser.



    Christophe



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