Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 13:34:08 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 13:37:05, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 12:56:44, Dan Homan wrote: > >>Hi Will, >> >>Your adjustment does something to correct for the >>faster is better rule - and the logrithm accounts for >>the fact that faster isn't linearly better, but >>Vincent has a point in that (beyond the above considerations) your >>adjustment is basically pulled out of thin air. A better >>approximation might be to use the general rule that >>doubling the speed gives about seventy elo points. >>Adjusting for that rule is easy... >> >>Adjusted Rating = Rating - 70 x log[2](MHz) - 2000 >> >>(where log[2] is log base 2) > >The "general rule" used to be that doubling speed was worth 100 points... then >70 points... some people even say 35 points now. 50 may have been as good a >guess as any. > >Dave Forgetting my point... which was that apparently the rule is insufficiently general! Dave
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