Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 06:18:37 12/01/00
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I remember somebody doing this about 5 years ago, and posting the results in rec.games.chess. If I recall correctly (please correct me if I am wrong), the difference was only a little more than FIDE+50=UCSF. While this seemed low, when you looked at the data it made sense. The first people you think of in this comparison are the GMs with 2700 USCF ratings, and 2575 FIDE ratings. But there are a great many USCF 2225 NMs with FIDE 2290 type ratings which counteract this. I personally know 2 local Masters whose FIDE ratings are significantly higher than their USCF (i.e. FIDE2335/USCF2230, and FIDE2180/USCF2090). I think the assumption that FIDE ratings are over 1000 points lower than USCF on the whole is a mistaken one. Chris 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.
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