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Subject: Re: SSDF Elo Scale Too High?

Author: blass uri

Date: 02:57:15 12/30/99

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On December 30, 1999 at 03:45:17, Harald Faber wrote:

>On December 30, 1999 at 02:33:56, blass uri wrote:
>
>>>I'm not going to get dragged into this again, but I will say that if a program
>>>is said to be playing at 2600, then test it against 2600 players and see how it
>>>does. Showing it can beat up players rated 200-400 points less means very
>>>little, even if it can be entertaining. Just my 2 cents. I'm aware that can be
>>>incredibly difficult to arrange, but I see no other way around this, if the
>>>truth is what is being sought. Being 2600 means more than beating 2400 players,
>>>it means holding your own against 2600 players, no? I think this upcoming
>>>Israeli leagure in which both Junior 6 (Deep Junior?) and Rebel Century will be
>>>playing should be quite instructive as the human opponents, due to the nature of
>>>the event, will be very motivated.
>>>
>>>                                     Albert Silver
>>
>>I think that the performance of Rebel,Deep Junior and Fritz in the Israeli
>>league is going to be lower than the real rating of them because of the fact
>>that the opponent teams can choose the human to play against the computer.
>>
>>Uri
>
>And what is the point? Why should the TPR be lower than supposed? Do you expect
>the teams sending ELO2000 for comp-playing? Does the Israel-first league have
>such players?

No but they can choose players who know better to play against computers.

They can prefer 2400 player with a positional style to play the computer and not
2500 player who like to play for tactical positions when computers are better.

Uri



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