-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't have any reason to believe there is a problem. The rating system is not based on how well you do against the anchor player, it's just a device to prevent long-term rating drift. If the pool of players were to inflate or deflate for any reason, the Anchor will not drift with them and so WHOEVER plays the anchor will get corrections which will propagate to all the players.
I have long considered setting up a lower-end anchor. To do this, I would let some fixed weaker player play for several weeks and then average his rating over time to arrive at a good guess. It should be a substantial number of games to be accurate. I think it takes about 50000 or more games to get within a couple of ELO points if we were doing straight performance ratings, but I would setting for less - it wouldn't be that critical for a low level player (and we could even adjust it later based on more games.) - - Don Hideki Kato wrote: > Hi Don and all, > > There are many variants of MoGo run on CGOS 9x9 > now # http://cgos.boardspace.net/9x9/standings.html > > I guess they force confuse the rating system because MoGo is the > strongest, programs have a match more frequently against MoGo than > anchors and get rating decrease in average. If we had many anchors > running this would not happen. Someday, in theory, it will converge a > balancing point but it may take so long time. > > As I'm not familiar with the match-making and rating system of cgos, I > may be wrong. > > gg (Hideki) > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kato) > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHCBI1DsOllbwnSikRAgP6AJ0TCdF1/bWVTUT6lUhzpamRwvsc3wCfSZuc iD0x/AU9o8Zu+i1kiOYA8XY= =NWUA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
