Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 06:29:06 11/03/99
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On November 03, 1999 at 08:36:13, Peter Hegger wrote: >Hi all, >I bought a Novag Diamond tabletop computer a couple of years back. Their were 2 >reasons for my purchase. 1) I needed a portable machine. 2) My old "Fidelity >master 2265" (supposedly action rated by the Computer rating agency of the USCF) >was obviously no where near 2265 action rated on it's best day. >So I sent my $300 US to the USCF so I could buy my 2383 action rated (again by >the same Computer rating agency of the USCF) table top terror Novag diamond. >What a disappointment. I'm a 1700 player or thereabouts at standard time >controls and I find I can usually get a 30% score in a series of games at 40/90. >Either I'm alot better than 1700 (which I'm not) or this thing is also as >grossly over rated as the Fidelity master is. >One thing I do know for sure is I will take any and all endorsements and ratings >by the USCF on products they sell with a grain of salt from now on. >Has anyone else had similar experiences or reasons to doubt the validity of >these "computer rating agency" ratings? >Thanks, >Peter (abel2 at ICC) This used to be my favorite topic... The USCF had the option to rate computers based upon standard tournament time condition (40 moves in 2 hours). But they opted to rate computers at Action Chess (entire game in 30 minutes). Why? To me it was obvious... chess computers play vastly better when humans are rushed. Allow them to be rated "officially" under Action Chess and they get MUCH higher ratings. MUCH higher ratings generally are directly responsible for higher sales. Hmmmm. - Steve (ICD/Your Move)
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