Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 13:37:46 05/25/02
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>Let's not forget that correspondence ratings are probably inflated a lot. >The best players at this specialty probably never played a single game. >For instance, I have no doubt in my mind that Kasparov will eat alive any >correspondence player by a huge margin. What would be the rating of Kasparov if >it decides to really go into it? 3000?. IMO, They are just from different >levels. It is very often to see correspondence ratings that are 200 points >higher than their respective FIDE rating. I partially agree. I think "inflated" means "higher than you should expect based on average performance". ut that can never happen, as rating is "related to the opposition". In that case there is no inflation for any chess form, including correspondence chess. That your CC rating is higher than an OTB rating, is not necessary - each discipline has it's experts - but not so illogical. If I play on an online server, and restrict myself to playing 3,0 or 5,0 blitz, my rating on that server is like 1300 or 1400. When playing longer time controls, but also rapid play like 20 minutes a game, my rating is already 1600-1650. When playing OTB with tournament controls, my rating rises to 1750-1850. When playing correspondence chess, I have a rating on that particular server of 2000-2100. The "progress" is almost linear and related to increasing use of time. Of course it is quite logically that -when having more time to think and thus more time to analyse- strenght will improve until the point of your "natural maximum strenght". As rating is always something "related to the pool of players", a CC rating can't be compared to an OTB rating. As you state it yourself, that even goes for Kasparov. The only reason for applying ratings is to get an impression of strenght of an opponent in the pool you play. I even don't know if I could win playing against an OTB 2000-2100 player, he or she playing with tournament time controls, me playing at CC time controls. Those two ratings are maybe not from the same "pool of players". And maybe if they were, not everyone might have the same rise in strenght with prolonged time controls - ratingwise. But -again- that is not the purpose of ratings. Ratings are always relative, and thus are never inflated, they just tell something about your strenght between your opponents playing the same game. J.
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