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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc, rec.games.chess.computer
From: "David Kane" <davidek...@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:24:09 -0700
Local: Thurs, Apr 26 2007 9:24 pm
Subject: Re: Greatest chess players ever? Capa, Kramnik, Karpov, Kasparov, *in that order* (cuz 'puters don't lie!)
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>So, understanding how chess works, and how chess playing computers I would not go so far as to say that I side with the original argument, >work, and having seen Crafty evaluate pretty good myself, I have to >side with the original article. only that Riis' objections were groundless. In fact, the original authors have done some groundbreaking work on developing a methodology to rate chess players. It is, at the very least, very interesting, and a refreshing change from the pseudo-science historical ELO/chessmetrics stuff. The problem with the work is that it applies a new method to a very hard problem (ranking world champions) when they haven't even shown the method's worth when applied to easy problems (ranking everybody else). I have previously expressed belief in the theory that "move rating" will You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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