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

[terry mcintyre]

How does 500 elo points compare to kyu ranks?

Beginning players do improve by 4-5 ranks in a short
period of time. We don't all start as dan-level
players, alas!

--- Christoph Birk <birk at ociw.edu> wrote:

> 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
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Terry McIntyre &lt;terrymcintyre at yahoo.com&gt;

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