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Subject: Re: Odds of ratings drift being 196 poinys off of Fide ratings?

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 15:08:38 11/29/99

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On November 29, 1999 at 14:37:31, Charles Unruh wrote:

>On November 29, 1999 at 14:08:46, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>>Why don't we forget about absolute ratings and make them program-relative
>>instead?
>
>Because most of us as well as most consumers are not as concerned with the
>relative strength of comps vs comps as we are with comps vs humans.

Then we should be playing hundreds of games with the programs against humans of
various strengths above and below what we think is the approximate strength of
the program.  Anything less will not give you what you want to an accuracy
of better than a few hundred points.

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