Engine ELO versus Human ELO

[BFG]

I know that, ordinarily, ELOs calculated for engines are not comparable to human ELOs. And, there's the added complexity that different chess federations have slightly different ELO calculations/systems.

That said, I wondered...is there any data available where a human opponent with an established ELO played several games against one or more UCI- or XBoard-compatible engines? That could be used to "index" the ELOs that are calculated.

[Graham Banks]

This comes up regularly in the forums.
The general consensus seerms to be that the rating list ELOs are pretty accurate.

[BFG]

My Google-fu must be lacking then...I didn't see any discussions on it. Sorry about that

[Graham Banks]

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 15&start=0

Just one of many threads where this is discussed.