Author: Robin Smith
Date: 22:27:10 05/25/02
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On May 25, 2002 at 21:37:01, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >What I wanted to discuss is the point that the fact of these _8_ points alone, >is normally sufficient that I could _not_ stop the tests, in combination with >the big margin of error of course. 30 or some is too big. I write stopping the >tests, but this is not what happens, they _publish_ the results of that moment. >IMO this is wrong! The results make no sense if we talk about a ranking list. >Ranks. We simply can't differentiate ranks with 8 points difference and 30 >points error. >Rolf Tueschen From the latest FIDE top 100 ranking list: 5 Topalov, Veselin 2745 6 Adams, Michael 2744 7 Ponomariov, Ruslan 2743 Why did they stop to publish at THIS point in time? I mean only 1 rating point between #5 and #6, and only one more rating point between #6 and #7. "IMO this is wrong! The results make no sense if we talk about a ranking list. Ranks. We simply can't differentiate ranks with" 1 rating point difference between #'s5,6&7. :-) Robin
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