Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 13:14:39 12/25/99
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Hi Albert,
(NOTE--my below questions can be answered by *anyone*, not just Albert, thanks)
I'm not really trying to debate (despite my style of writing, sorry about
that!), as in trying to win an argument or a contest involving debate. I am not
concerned with winning/losing a debate or argument. I am not interested in
proving that your opinion is wrong or inferior to another opinion or my opinion
(I was teasing about looking over your postings very critically).
I often air my opinion (yes at length, since I write that way--I think that
way) in order to have another poster clarify *their opinion* and show me how it
differs from my opinion and why. This isn't a personal matter, it is simply how
I learn about the world and other people.
You provide many interesting postings, but I don't understand all of them.
I am curious to to understand what you are saying and why. I am trying to
discuss some points that confuse me. You've got me interested in the FIDE
ratings inflation subject. Here's some of my basic questions.
1. Do you believe FIDE ratings are inflated? (Y/N)
2. If so, why? (please indicate briefly what causes the inflation)
2A. Example--Is it that you think FIDE starting ratings are inflated,
therefore the ratings of opponents who play starting FIDE players are inflated
(Y/N)?
I was confused by your posting, which mixes several points that are not all
related to rating inflation, IMO. Example--you seem to discuss points regarding
TPRs that use non-FIDE games and non-FIDE ratings.
3. Does FIDE use non-FIDE games or TPR calculations including non-FIDE ratings
to establish initial FIDE ratings for a new FIDE player (Y/N)?
I don't know the FIDE rules for initial ratings. Please help me understand
them, thanks.
4. When a player first plays a FIDE rated game, does he/she get a minimum
rating assigned by FIDE for the purposes of rating his/her opponents who are
already established FIDE rated players (Y/N)?
Example, I play my first (and only) FIDE rated game against a 2300 FIDE player
and lose.
5. Although I am only 1900 rated (USCF), will FIDE give me a minimal starting
rating of 2000 (instead of the previous 2200 minimal amount?) so that my
opponent (2300 FIDE) is rated against me as though I were FIDE 2000 rated (Y/N)?
6. What will be my FIDE rating, after that one game?
7. Or, if FIDE only rates a player after at least 4 games have been played,
let us say that I lose 4 times to FIDE 2300 rated players--what will my FIDE
rating be after those first four games?
This discussion is not about being right or wrong I just wanted to know what
were you were trying to say, and what is the basis for your opinion.
If these questions are too lengthy or too difficult, ignore them. However I
am seriously interested in the answers.
Thank you,
--Steve Boak
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