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Subject: Re: Rating in ICC is meaningless and here is an example

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:55:34 01/14/03

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On January 14, 2003 at 11:45:05, pavel wrote:

>On January 14, 2003 at 11:28:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Sorry but a technique that is useful to prevent getting inflated rating and does
>>not prevent getting rating that is too low is not useful.
>>
>
>That's only for the first 20 games, when you are still provisional.
>How hard is it to keep yourself from playing anyone whose rating is 400 points
>lower than you in the first 20 games?

Very hard

Movei automatically agree to play against everyone.

It is espacially hard in the first games when players know nothing about ICC
thanks to less of experience.

I think that not playing everyone is an unfair way to inflate my rating
so I am probably not going to use it.

Uri



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