[computer-go] CG'2008 paper: Whole-History Ratings

[Christoph Birk]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Andy wrote:
> For example:  Suppose a player's true strength is 1500 for some time, and
> then he suddenly improves to 2000.  Both before and after he plays a fixed
> number of games per day (say 10).  Show a graph of what each rating
> algorithm would think his rating is over time.  Many people complain that
> the KGS algorithm does not move fast enough for a case like this.

I think that's a bad example since no player "suddenly" improves
by 500 ELO points.

Christoph