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Subject: Re: How many points difference between FIDE and USCF rating?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 17:59:58 11/30/00

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On November 30, 2000 at 19:57:28, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On November 30, 2000 at 19:53:55, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>>If a Player is rated 2500 FIDE, then what would be his aproximate USCF rating?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your information!
>
>It could be calculated from a list of players who belong to both organizations.
>Without using that data, it would only be a wild guess.  There is surely some
>correlation between the strength of players in one group compared to the other
>but without a meaninful mathematical comparison, the only result you could
>obtain is a wild guess or opinion.
>
>I suspect that the needed data does exist.  It would simply need to be gathered
>and analyzed.

I believe you are right Dann,
One time I tried to dig up a few names and compare but just a cursory look at
about 20 names gave no hint.  Some had USCF ratings higer than FIDE and some
were lower than FIDE.  The only thing I rember was that more were higher.
Jim



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