Re: [computer-go] multiple entities may complicate things

2006-12-30 Thread Don Dailey
We are going to fit a curve to the ELO system to determine what works best for the actual players on CGOS. Steve Uurtamo is helping me with this. I really like the idea of rating entities separately, but for now CGOS won't be doing this - it would require a good bit of reworking of CGOS to make t

Re: [computer-go] multiple entities may complicate things

2006-12-30 Thread dave . devos
I think it is good to know that the EGF rating system is a modified version of the ELO rating system. AFAIK the ELO rating system links a 100 point difference to a winning percentage of 68% (corresponding to 1 standard deviation in the normal distribution). The EGF rating modifies this by rank de