Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 10:49:19 06/01/02
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On May 31, 2002 at 13:48:19, Uri Blass wrote: > >I think that it changed almost nothing because unfortunately there are almost no >women in chess. > >adding 10 elo to the men could change more than adding 100 elo to the women >because for every woman that play chess in tournament there are at least 10 men >that do it. > Right. >I also think that it changed nothing because of another reason. > >A lot of the women who played played Fide games only against other women. > But they can give their points up indirectly, it is only slower. >Women got better and this is the reason that the rating of women was simply >wrong so people decided to add 100 elo for the women to correct the error. > >Uri I still think that the main reason was that FIDE did not want to have Judit Polgar at the top of their women rating list. Their official explanation is that they wanted more women playing in tournaments against men (they were often not invited due to their low ratings). FIDE said that Prof. Elo gave his blessing to that rating increase. When asked he also said that he suggested an smaller increase (25 points) for Judit Polgar since whe played quite a lot against men. Those points would have been enough to keep her at the top, but FIDE gave her none. José.
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