Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:10:46 12/11/99
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On December 11, 1999 at 04:03:26, Roger wrote:
>On December 11, 1999 at 00:35:24, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>This pattern you mention may or may not apply to Mach IV, depending on the
>>number of games played when listed with the 2280 rating, but it doesn't show in
>>the cases of Rebel 8 and Mchess 6 I mentioned in another post. I also checked
>>the rating of F5 since it first appeared in February 98: 2589 (198 games), 2573
>>(already 794 games), 2574, 2574, 2570, 2566, 2567, 2564, 2565, 2566, 2561. It
>>seems pretty consistent to me. Now, why would this pattern you mention apply to
>>Mach IV and not to Rebel 8, Mchess 6 and Fritz 5? It seems to make sense to
>>think that there is no such pattern.
>>
>>Enrique
>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Chuck
>
>The fact that each successive month of Fritz ratings includes all the months
>before it lends an artificial stability to Fritz ratings. If the ratings were
>calculated for each set of, say, 250 games, there might be much more of a
>difference than the 2589 first rating and the 2561 last rating reveal.
>
>Roger
So you propose tossing the matches it played against certain opponents? How
would you choose which matches to discard?
Albert Silver
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