From: "Dr.Eduard Werner" GMX DE> Date: 14 mar 2001 Subject: Re: Evaluation of handicap games (please comment) On Wednesday 14 March 2001 13:28, you wrote: > Hello Edi, > > On 01/03/14 at 9:52 +0100, Dr.Eduard Werner wrote: > >can anyone give me a hint of how to evaluate handicap games? Right now I > >thought of simply adjusting the opponent's rating by a certain number of > >points according to the handicap, so that the game would simply be > >evaluated as if it were an even game against a stronger (or weaker) > >player. I'm considering the following magic numbers: > > Please check with Larry and Asle (copied in on this mail). Based on a > statistical analysis, they have determined these values already. They > will also be able to tell you how to evaluate the games and determine > the corresponding Elo changes (this is probably easy since each game > will most likely be individually rated, as opposed to being part of a > tournament, so that you can use pre-event ratings and no iteration is > required). Very interesting! (That's what I was hoping for :-) You say it's copied in on this mail? Where is it? I can't see it anywhere. Best Edi