Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:36:23 11/27/99
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On November 27, 1999 at 11:56:17, Jonathan Lee wrote: > Is there a web site that has conversion between ratings? > There is: > SSDF Swedish > ELO Hungarian > USCF United States > FIDE International (and a lot more) > Yes, the November 1999 chess computer List uses the Swedish rating method. > Maybe percentiles (among humans and/or computers) could be the universal >method also. > It is safe bet you could use 99%, 99.1%, 99.2%, etc. > Almost everything is two thousand something (2000+) for the latest computer >list in which 3000 is 100 percent. > There should be no philosophical differences on this one. > I do have a conversion between USCF and FIDE in a rule book. > Jonathan (14th message) There aren't enough games played between these programs and humans under tournament conditions to generate a successful conversion. There is enough trouble trying to convert ratings between the human scales. None of the top SSDF programs have real FIDE or USCF ratings. They are very strong. Whether they are as strong as GM's or IM's or what is open to contention. If they aren't as strong as typical GM's already, they are within a hardware generation or two of being that strong. This doesn't mean that they will be able to understand every position as well as a GM, it simply means that they'll score 50% in tournament play on a computer that you can lift. In 1995 at the Hong Kong WCCC everyone was asked when they thought computers would be as strong as the world champion. My pick was not published in the ICCAJ, presumably since I was a nobody. My date was 2005, and I'm still sticking to this four and a half years later. bruce
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