Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:22:53 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 11:15:19, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >The formula initially used the clock instead of the logarithm of it. It was even >worse so I suggested to take the log of the clock which, at that time, seemed to >give a better description of threal situation. >I suggested the log because it is quite clear that a doubling of the clock does >give just a little extra elo and not a doubling of it. There are many >"non-linearities" both in the increase of strength with the clock and in the >increase of the elo with the increase of strenght. > >Probably there is no such an easy formula to be found to better describe the >relationships between programs at different clocks, but this is the best we have >found so far. >If you have a better idea (and saying that it sucks is not a better idea) let >all us know. Just leave it out then. There is no need to do it that way. People kick on rating height, not on the rating divided by the clockspeed. >regards >Franz
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