| Harold Buck 2006-11-19, 9:06 pm |
| In article <1162322358.246753.74960@e64g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"Louis Blair" <lblai@blackburn.edu> wrote:
quote:
> "... the rating scale itself is an arbitrary scale, open
> ended, . . . with no reproducible fixed points. ..."
> - Arpad Elo, Chess Notes, 1988.
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> Somebody once proposed that one could have a
> reproducible fixed point by having a program that
> would calculate all possible legal moves in a
> position and randomly select one. My guess is
> that this would not produce results that would
> be consistent enough to be helpful. What do
> other people think?
I think it would not provide a good simulation of people who "just know
the rules," because even those people have some inherent understanding
that a capture is better than a random pawn move. But it does have a
certain appeal, since I guess it really does simulate someone who knows
how the pieces move and NOTHING else.
--Harold Buck
"Hubris always wins in the end. The Greeks taught us that."
-Homer J. Simpson
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