Author: Milton Zucker
Date: 22:24:40 09/26/98
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On September 26, 1998 at 14:31:23, John Coffey wrote: >I had made a similar suggestion to Dahoora on ICC a few years ago. The idea >is that ratings are pretty volatile. So my suggestion is that he take a >computer program that will not change and use it to measure rating drift >on ICC, and then if the ratings do drift he could adjust his rating system >accordingly to bring them back in line. > >He turned the idea down. > >I suspect that in a few years that online chess will be so easily available >to everyone that online ratings will be considered more important than OTB >ratings. > >John Coffey > >Make chess, not war. You may well be right but for the present I don't think there is a lot of respect for online ratings because people don't consider these games "serious" chess and the ratings do fluctuate considerably.
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