Well, for what it's worth: http://cross-tables.com/results.php?p=17892
I'm not sure which iteration of Quackle was used in the Computer vs. Human Challenge, but my guess would be Toronto Player (which I think has since been named Championship Player). Quackle went 4-2 against David Boys, who was rated 1861 at the time and was the only person to play Quackle more than once in "rated" competition. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:52 PM, marc_roddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I should make my question more specific. What are the > ratings of the people that are beating quackle half of the time (for > example against speedy player)? > Marc > > --- In [email protected], "John Van Pelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At first glance, this is an interesting question, if only because > it invites > > definition of the term 'strength'. Although the direct question of > how the > > different settings compare *with each other* could be answered with > a series > > of automated games (1000 match-ups, let's say) between Quackles. > > > > If the intent of the question, however, is to gauge how those > settings > > compare with *human* players of various levels, it gets a little > murkier. > > Even some of the artificially weakened bots (as in the original > Maven, or on > > ISC), play approximately at a 1500 rating level (say) but the > actual style > > of play (if you can call it a style) is far different from that of > any human > > player at the equivalent level. > > > > Maybe this all means there are an infinite number of ways to suck at > > Scrabble. But is there only one way to be perfect? > > > > -jvp > > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:09 PM, marc_roddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm very interested to know what you estimate the playing > strength of > > > quackle to be. Is there a big difference between the playing > strength > > > of the different players (speedy, 20 second, 5 minute)? I'm not > really > > > good enough at scrabble to be able to estimate the playing > strength > > > myself. > > > Marc > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Brad Mills Director, NSA Club #620 - Charleston, WV http://www.wvscrabble.com http://wvscrabble.blogspot.com
