Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 01:38:16 06/16/01
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On June 15, 2001 at 22:45:41, Dann Corbit wrote: >Where do problems arise? >The Burmese (Myanmar) FIDE ratings scandal is a case in point. Players >isolated from the pool do not have comensurate meaning when we try to compare >the ratings. I don't think for a minute that people were cheating (though it >isn't impossible). Rather, the pools of players were isolated. It should have >been rather more astonishing if two dissimilar pools produced ELO rating scales >that were identical! I have to think of another example here when a certain player suddenly stood very high in the USCF rating list despite not being a GM of some sorts. He had been in jail, playing chess tournaments there, which appearently counted for USCF rating too. He was by far the best chessplayer there and hence his rating went up by a large amount. -- GCP
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