My program isn't ready yet, but I'll keep it in mind.
I think there are a lot of programmers hanging out at this website
(http://www.chessvariants.org) and many of them may have hacked together a
program out of nothingness, using nothing but sweat and insight, and they
should be encouraged to have their programs brought in as well. (Ditto
goes for the people that are responsible for programming ZOG.)
I think that a 'Game-Ply Rating' system would probably oscillate around
a bit, with every re-calculation introducing a little bit of drag and a
little bit of drift- considering how 0-ply systems would hover around
1000, 1-ply systems around 1100, 2-ply at 1200, and 3-ply at 1300, and so
on.
Using a 'Game-Ply Rating' system, to which computers could contribute
benchmarks, would make the human performances more meaningful. And if a
human's USCF or ELO chess rating were imported into the 'Game-Ply
Rating' system, it would probably see a steep climb before stabilizing.
For instance, if a handful of human beginners at 800 USCF started playing
a few 0-ply computers at 1000 GPR, the human ratings would go up. I would
oppose lowering a computer's GPR rating, however. If a computer has a GPR
rating, it should only go down as a result of a loss to another computer.
This is because humans are inherently smarter than computers. The
computer GPR ratings ought to be independent benchmarks that only they
themselves contribute to.
