Author: Louis Fagliano
Date: 09:24:00 05/02/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 11:46:24, stuart taylor wrote: >Yes! comp-comp play exagerates differences! >S.Taylor Actually, it is not comp-comp play that exaggerate and inflate elo ratings, it is any group of players (human or otherwise) PLAYING ONLY EACH OTHER. If Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik, Adams, Moroevich, Leko, Topolov, Ponomariov, and Bareev continue to play only each other in these super tournaments, how can any of them lose a lot of rating points? That is the reason why the previous generation of players (Spassky, Petrosian, Fischer, Geller, Korchnoi, etc.) could never get their ratings as high as the top ten players of today. There were no super tournaments. Any one of those would occasionally draw or lose to an IM, and when they'd slaughter a lot of IM's and lower rated GM's (like Fischer used to do) their ratings wouldn't go up by much. The top players of today don't even play anyone rated much under 2700, only in super tornaments. IMO super tornaments are the reason for elo ratings inflation.
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