Author: Uwe Meißner
Date: 00:36:17 09/12/03
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On September 11, 2003 at 06:39:36, Uri Blass wrote: > >I believe that the system is simple against new players and the main problem is >the static numbers that new players get and a strong new player may get initial >rating of 1800 and reduce the rating of the opponents when the opponents are >only the new players and not players with high rating who escape from playing >with players with small rating. > >I doubt if Tansel is weaker than Nickel and it is possible that he is even >stronger than him. > >I suspect that ICCF is similiar to ICC and players may get high rating by >playing against the right opponents. > >Uri That's not right. There are very big differences between the rating systems of ICCF and ICC. In ICC you can play many times against the same opponent - one reason for strong tendency of inflation. You can manupulate your rating by serveral methods. In ICCF there aren't such things, you just have to qualify for stronger tournaments and this might take some time, that's the problem. As I saw on ICCF eloquery, GM Nickel beat many GM and players with rating above 2500 and more. Such a career will of course take more then 10 years, because that's correspondence chess. Uwe
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