Re: Réf . : [Bug-gnubg] Suggestion for change of rates/ratings

[Christian Anthon]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:01:09PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >it is well known that gnubg judges the players harder than snowie.
> >Snowie error rates seems to be defacto standard when judging players. To
> >see how gnubg and snowie error rates compare I tried downloading 25 or
> >so matches from Hardye's site, all played between more or less world
> >class players and most of them quite long. They were analysed using
> >gnubg 2ply/2ply.
> >
> >To summarise:
> >
> >snowie_m  snowie_c   snowie  gnubg_m  gnubg_c   gnubg
> >    3.91      1.66     5.58     9.36    21.51   11.25
> 
> What are snowie_m  snowie_c   snowie  gnubg_m  gnubg_c   gnubg ?!
> 

sorry, thought this would be clear. All error rates, computed the snowie
way first, and the gnubg way second. (m)oves, (c)ube and total.

> In match stats there's a "Equiv. Snowie error rate", so why not adding an
> "Equiv. Snowie overall rating" based on the "Equiv. Snowie error rate"
> (using same grouping as Snowie) ?

Because there is more than enough info in the stats already and I more
or less now the translation.

> 
> This would be Snowie-like without changing gnubg rating system ...
> 

I am not looking to change the system , just the rate->rating
translations.

Christian.