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Subject: Re: Performance rating calculation

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 16:04:15 06/02/04

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On June 02, 2004 at 17:16:15, Dan Wulff wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I've been thinking about using performance rating to select moves for Gandalf's
>opening book, but I cannot seem to find the correct way to calculate the
>performance rating od a given move.
>
>Say a 2600 player wins a game against an 2500 opponent, starting with 1. e4,
>what would the performance rating be after that ??
>
>I've been looking at the ratings in the CB GUI, but sometimees, when only one
>game has been played, the Performance is over 3200, which I cannot seem to fit
>into the ELO rating formula, where the highest possible gain/loss for a single
>game is 16 ELO points.
>
>Am I going about this in a completely wrong manner, or does performance rating
>have nothing whatsoever to do with ELO rating ??
>
>Greetings
>
>Dan Wulff
>(The Gandalf Team)

Hi Dan,
forget about performance rating (and your statement about 16 points is wrong...)

You can absolutely use the rating difference as a way to set weights to opening
moves. The rating difference is equal to an expected wining % and that can be
translated to what one win/draw/loss is worth in ELO points in the long run.
As you are Danish you will probably understand this table:
http://hem.passagen.se/wirsbo/lask.html
The rating diff translates to ELO points that you can add into your book.
/Peter



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